Harvard Gazette article on new research from Martin Kathrins and colleagues, first author Zachary Walker, assessing the effects of anxiety and depression in men on fertility and IVF outcomes. They found no correlation between anxiety, regardless of antidepressant use, and IVF outcomes or live birth rate.

HMS News article on new research from Haiden A. Huskamp and colleagues, first author Lindsay Overhage, finding that the number of young people in the United States visiting hospital emergency departments for mental health crises increased sharply during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Boston Children's Hospital Answers article on new research from Melissa Christino and colleagues explore the links between an athlete’s mental and emotional state and their physical recovery from injury.

Brigham and Women's Hospital press release on new research from Laura D Kubzansky, Yang-Yu Liu, and colleagues, first author Shanlin Ke, linking specific bacteria in the gut to positive emotions like happiness and hopefulness and healthier emotion management skills. Also featured in the Harvard Gazette.

The lab of Bob Datta was featured in the New York Times for their recent study finding that the behavior of male mice is more unpredictable than that of females, challenging century-old assumptions used to exclude females from research because of their hormones.

HMS News article on new research from Roy H. Perlis and colleagues, first author Andrea G. Edlow, finding that male but not female babies born to women who tested positive for SARS‐CoV‐2 during pregnancy were more likely to be diagnosed with a neurodevelopmental disorder in their first 12 months.

MGH Psychiatry News article on new research from Deborah Blacker and colleagues at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health on the potential beneficial effects of flavonoids (naturally occurring compounds found in plants, generally fond in the highest concentrations in more pigmented foods, such as berries, citrus fruits, kale, and red cabbage) on cognitive decline.

Harvard MCB News article on new research from the lab of Catherine Dulac, first author Anita Autry (Albert Einstein College of Medicine; former postdoc in the Dulac lab), identifying hypothalamic neurons activated during infant-directed attacks in males and females, but not other behaviors.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center press release on new research from the lab of Mark Andermann, first author Stephen X. Zhang, uncovering the precise hypothalamic neurons that regulate the drive to engage in mating behaviors in mice.

Graduate student Ya'el Courtney (lab of Maria Lehtinen, Boston Children's Hospital) shares her story about navigating a difficult adolescence, facing financial challenges, and her journey to graduate school and neuroscience research.

MGH Press Release on new research from from Natalia Rost and colleagues, first author Anna Katharina Bonkhoff, demonstrating that brain lesions in regions subserving motor and language functions help explain stroke severity in both men and women, however more widespread lesion patterns are relevant in female patients.

Round up of awards and honors earned by the HBI community.

Stephen Zhang shares new research from the labs of Mike Crickmore and Dragana Rogulja showing that young male flies have functional courtship circuitry, but the motivation to mate is suppressed by a hormone until maturity.

Harvard Gazette article announcing the founding of the Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics at Massachusetts General Hospital, to be led by Jerrold Rosenbaum.

Rachel Monyak and Edward Kravitz share new research characterizing a line of masculinized female flies that switches its style of fighting based on the sex of its opponent. This work furthers our understanding of factors that initiate fighting and offers clues as to why flies use male or female aggressive strategies.

HMS News article on new research from the Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance’s Health Equity Research Lab, first author Ana Progovac, finding that transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) patients in an urban safety-net health system experienced more suicide attempts, suicidal ideation, and violence victimization than other patients in the health system

Stephanie Rudolph shares new research she performed while a postdoc in Wade Regehr's lab showing that the cerebellum can regulate behavior in a sex-specific manner. She found that deletion of a hormone-sensitive GABA receptor subunit from the cerebellum resulted in increased stress-related behaviors in female but not male mice. Future research targeting these GABA receptors may help identify therapeutic approaches for sex-biased neurodevelopmental & psychiatric disorders involving the cerebellum

Brian Kalish (Greenberg lab) and Eunha Kim (Jun Huh lab) share findings from a single cell-RNA sequencing study that explores the impact of maternal immune activation (MIA) on protein synthesis in the fetal brain and reveals sex-specific effects.

Krissy Lyon describes a new study from the lab of Susan Dymecki, examining how serotonin-producing neurons and dopamine interact in the brainstem to modulate mouse behaviors, and how this might differ in males versus females.

How do we perceive the reachable world? Emilie Josephs shares a recent study from the lab of Talia Konkle suggesting different brain representations for processing near-scale environments, far-scale environments, and single objects.