Newfound gene network controls long-range connections between emotional, cognitive brain areas thetransmitter.org/spectrum/newfo…

New Research: The dopamine hypothesis for ADHD: An evaluation of evidence accumulated from human studies and animal models frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #FrontiersIn #Psychiatry

The effects of acute stress and stress hormones on social cognition and behavior: Current state of research and future directions sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We believe that we have discovered a vector calculus for neural computation in the cerebellum: work of Mohammad Amin Fakharian Alden Shoup Paul Hage Hisham Elseweifi biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Super pumped to announce that our new work “Face cells encode objects parts more than facial configuration of illusory faces” with Kasper Vinken, Akshay Jagadeesh and Marge Livingstone is now out in Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

One year ago, we published our work on how neurons in the rat visual cortex could support object motion perception by solving the "aperture problem". doi.org/10.1126/sciadv… ... Missed it? Great time to revisit this thread: #Paperversary

Check out our minireview on DA sensors and how they benefited neuroscience: authors.elsevier.com/a/1k6hE8MqMiqW… Great teamwork of my students and postdoc Xuehan Zacharoula and Paul

Schizophrenia has more in common with #depression than we generally assume. Perhaps this stems form shared problems in energy handling at cellular level? cambridge.org/core/journals/…

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻? The brain as a *heterarchy*! Wonderful and stimulating paper by Gmaz et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.conb…

Co-regulation of breathing and negative emotion. Congratulations Sung Han nature.com/articles/s4159…

Public repository for code and data - github.com/Kwan-Lab/aboha…, for our preprint "Classification of psychedelics and psychoactive drugs based on brain-wide imaging of cellular c-Fos expression" PS: much issues with CodeOcean for peer review.. Now it is on GitHub too. 👨‍💻👩‍💻

Huge congrats to Karyna M. 🇺🇦 for her paper published today in Science Magazine! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/7

According to dynamical systems, psychiatric disorders can be seen as energy landscapes with peaks and valleys. OCD has deep valleys where neural activity gets stuck, while schizophrenia has shallow valleys that let neural activity roam too freely, connecting unrelated ideas.

1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! How do dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains? Turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all! Comparing CD1 & C57 mice, we found strain-specific behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab🧵 Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9

It’s finally out! I'm excited to share the last piece of my work from Francesco Papaleo. If you’re interested in emotion-related behaviors in mice, check it out! A huge thanks to all the co-authors and our collaborator Felix Leroy for making this possible! nature.com/articles/s4159…

I want to highlight *some* of my favorite studies on dendrites and spines from 2024 👀 - feeling very excited and inspired about the field 🔥 Happy new year y'all!

Delighted to share this new work from the lab. A tour-de-force from Cassie Klune Caitlin Goodpaster and Michael Gongwer showing how the maturation of frontolimbic circuits underlies developmental milestones in threat avoidance behaviors.

🧠How does the brain encode empathy? 🧠 📚🧩A recent study published by Choi et al. (2025) in #Nature_Communications uncovered new insights into the neural basis of affect sharing —the ability to vicariously experience others' emotions—using #Doric_Lenses #eFocus

Feeling hungry for a social paper? Feast your eyes on this - mechanism for social homeostasis unveiled by ⁦Catherine Dulac⁩’s fantastic team! ⁦⁩ nature.com/articles/s4158…

I am very proud to announce that my PhD paper finally came out in Cell! In this *very* collaborative study, we develop and release a deep-learning approach to predict neuron type identity from their electrical signature. doi.org/10.1016/j.cell… 1/16 🧵