A call for transparency in academic neuroscience

Kareem Hamada¹, Joanne P M Kenney², Hilmar Klaus Luckhoff³, Pegah Seif⁴, Mohamed Abdalhameed Alnor⁵, Benneth Ben-Azu⁶, Luciana Diaz-Cutraro⁷, Mark A Elliott⁸, Royhaan Folarin⁹, Avril Hutch¹⁰, Cintia R Prokopez¹¹, Bakare Surajudeen¹², Silvia Di Lanzo¹³, Louise Walsh¹⁴, Tonya Watts¹⁵, Nora Y Sun⁴, Peter Levin⁴, Sahil Sood⁴, Susana Ochoa⁷, Matcheri Keshavan⁴, Paola Dazzan¹⁶, Elisabetta C Del Re¹⁷

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¹ Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA.
² Usher Institute, Edinburgh Medical School, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Abha Psychiatric Hospital, Saudi Arabia; Department of Psychiatry, University of Khartoum, Taha Baasher Psychiatric Hospital, Sudan.
⁶ DELSU Joint Canada-Israel Neuroscience and Biopsychiatry Laboratory, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Delta State University Abraka, Delta State, Nigeria; Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
⁷ MERITT group, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain.
⁸ School of Psychology, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.
⁹ Group for Biopsychiatry Research and Innovative Neuroscience (G-BRaIN), Department of Anatomy, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria.
¹⁰ University College Cork, Ireland.
¹¹ Institute of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Buenos Aires University, Argentina.
¹² Group for Biopsychiatry Research and Innovative Neuroscience (G-BRaIN), Department of Anatomy, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
¹³ Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
¹⁴ Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
¹⁵ CIBERSAM, ISCIII, Spain.
¹⁶ Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
¹⁷ Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: edelre@bidmc.harvard.edu.

PMID: 40279868
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2025.04.015

Editorial

A call for transparency in academic neuroscience

Kareem Hamada et al. Schizophr Res. 2025 Jun.

. 2025 Jun:280:117-121.

doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2025.04.015. Epub 2025 Apr 24.

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¹ Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA.
² Usher Institute, Edinburgh Medical School, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Abha Psychiatric Hospital, Saudi Arabia; Department of Psychiatry, University of Khartoum, Taha Baasher Psychiatric Hospital, Sudan.
⁶ DELSU Joint Canada-Israel Neuroscience and Biopsychiatry Laboratory, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Delta State University Abraka, Delta State, Nigeria; Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
⁷ MERITT group, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain.
⁸ School of Psychology, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.
⁹ Group for Biopsychiatry Research and Innovative Neuroscience (G-BRaIN), Department of Anatomy, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria.
¹⁰ University College Cork, Ireland.
¹¹ Institute of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Buenos Aires University, Argentina.
¹² Group for Biopsychiatry Research and Innovative Neuroscience (G-BRaIN), Department of Anatomy, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
¹³ Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
¹⁴ Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
¹⁵ CIBERSAM, ISCIII, Spain.
¹⁶ Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
¹⁷ Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: edelre@bidmc.harvard.edu.

PMID: 40279868
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2025.04.015

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Keywords: Bottleneck effect; Diversity in neuroscience; Diversity in psychiatry; Global perspectives in neuroscience; International graduates in neuroscience; Intersectionality; Leaky pipeline; Transparency; Unconscious bias; Women representation in neuroscience; Women representation in psychiatry.

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