Tiffany Cheing Ho, Ph.D.
@TiffanyCheingHo
Assistant Prof @UCLA Psychology studying adolescent brain development, depression, stress 🧠
@SOBP was incredible! 🇨🇦 🍁 I feel a renewed sense of hope about the future of the field of biological psychiatry & neuroscience when I see the impactful science that is being done—much of it led by trainees. May we continue supporting the next generation of scientists! #sobp2025




🚀 Exciting news! The brilliant @IsabellaKahhale just published an amazing scoping review on early life adversity and empathy! 🧠💖 Her work reviews if/how childhood experiences shape our ability to understand and resonate with others #Empathy link.springer.com/article/10.100… /1
Excited to be giving a keynote @OHBM alongside these fantastic colleagues/friends! See you in Brisbane 🧠 @adeelrazi @PTenigma @Gozzi_Ale @anqi_qiu @Joana_Cabral__ @SharnaJamadar @melanieboly humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/inde…
Smartphones can help people stay healthy by monitoring their sleep, steps and heart rate, but they also can help reveal issues tied to mental health, new research shows. In a study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers from the University of Michigan @umichLSA, University…
🌟 Cai Lab @Nature paper alert! In new work led by @mysteriousjoe_, we find that rest periods after learning not only stabilize new memories BUT ALSO integrate new memories with older ones from days past! (1/9) Read it here: nature.com/articles/s4158…
🧠📱Excited to share our invited commentary in @JAMANetworkOpen on the promise and pitfalls of using smartphones (and wearables) to track psychopathology. w/ @hadarfisher and linked to excellent paper by @WhitneyRingwald @aidangcw & team. Link -> tinyurl.com/5n8z4r6e
Framework for Brain-Derived Dimensions of Psychopathology | JAMA Psychiatry jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…
Advancing an Inflammatory Subtype of Depression. The time has come to disentangle the heterogeneity of depression and develop targeted therapies for mechanism-based entities. Read more at news.emory.edu/stories/2025/0… #depression #mentalhealth #PNIRS2025
Paper w/ @tcarpenter216 & @Alexgoedderz at PSPB!🚨 The standard IAT is only 5 min long. We found that making the IAT longer by taking it multiple times greatly improves predictive validity. Paper link and 🧵below, with practical advice about how to run IATs!
Excited to share my co–first-authored paper with @JX_Zhang123 and teamwork with @torwager and @JamesGross in @TrendsCognSci! We discuss emerging findings and a potential framework of neural overlap between emotion generation and regulation cell.com/trends/cogniti…
Check out our new review on the history and future of resting state fMRI 🧠 @restingstate @Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…
🔥Terrific new up-to-date review on genetics of schizophrenia, bipolar, depression, + what is known about their neurobiology 💡(link in comment below)
Congratulations to all those with awards—including those with honorable mentions—as this cycle was clearly more competitive than ever.
NSF will award ~1,000 instead of their usual ~2,000 Graduate Research Fellowships this year. NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half nature.com/articles/d4158…
1/2: Important new findings by @peterzhukovsky, a former postdoc in the lab and now faculty at @CAMHResearch, who identified a neural (rsfMRI) marker that predicted SSRI treatment.
1/9: Delighted to announce that our faculty cluster hire for the newly established Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries at UC Irvine is now live. The submission deadline is April 9, 2025.
🦋 @tiffanycheingho 🦋 LI: linkedin.com/in/tiffnie?utm…
1/6: We have various positions within my new lab at UC Irvine. We are looking for a Researcher (recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09209; equivalent to Research Assistant Professor), postdocs (recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09107), and Research Assistants (Specialist Series:, recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09109).
Amazing collaboration among @ColumbiaPsych, @PittPsychiatry, @prof_nick_allen showing that GPS data metrics (homestay) from personal smartphones can predict next week suicide events in high-risk youth. #SuicidePrevention #SuicideAwareness Now available in @JAMANetworkOpen:…
If you are a scientist or care about science, move over to 🦋 I am still on this platform (sparingly) but see little useful and accurate information or discussion related to science or politics of science
Exciting news from #SOBP!🎨 We invite your AI-assisted art submissions to be showcased at our annual meeting in Toronto, April 24-26, 2025! Check out the details on the submissions page of our meeting dashboard: sobp.societyconference.com/v2/ Unleash your creativity and join the fun!
A Perpsective on considering the interconnected nature of social identities in neuroimaging research @elvisha9 nature.com/articles/s4159…