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.

Online now: Ketamine rescues anhedonia by cell-type- and input-specific adaptations in the nucleus accumbens dlvr.it/TJdRGT

GluA2-containing AMPA receptors form a continuum of Ca2 -permeable channels nature.altmetric.com/details/175294…

Very important body of work😍 Glutamate gating of AMPA-subtype iGluRs at physiological temperatures | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Cool ! EPSILON: a method for pulse-chase labeling to probe synaptic AMPAR exocytosis during memory formation | Nature Neuroscience nature.com/articles/s4159…

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Beautifully written. Must read 👇 Check out this article: cnn.com/2025/04/09/hea…

Synapses drive local mitochondrial ATP synthesis to fuel plasticity biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_neursci

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Important study. 😊

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In a new Science study, researchers describe a neural circuit underlying cachexia-related apathy in a mouse model of cancer. Learn more ⬇️ 📄: scim.ag/42KkEe6 #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/4lA4BqQ

Very proud to see this beautiful artwork, highlighting Federica Lucantonio's paper, made by our talented former lab member Qwinkle on the cover of Neuron ! 🤩 Aleesha is now launching her career as a digital illustrator aleeshashi.com please, check her work!

Cancer muscle wasting-associated apathy is result of tumour-induced inflammation & brain circuitry interaction 📷 Xiaoyue Aelita Zhu & Sarah Starosta et al Kepecs Lab Marco Pignatelli Tobias Janowitz WashU Medicine Neuroscience in Science Magazine ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025/5… + Ruth Williams

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Prefrontal encoding of an internal model for emotional inference | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Norepinephrine signals through astrocytes to modulate synapses | Science Congrats ⁦Thomas Papouin (Papouin Lab - WashU)⁩ and co-authors 🥳 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

This chart made by Peter Gleick shows the proposed cuts to science graphically. This is bad for America. Please ask Congress to save science. #FundingScienceSavesLives