Inflammation and microglia impact brain energy metabolism causing local changes in metabolism. Metabolic flexibility protects neuronal network function against alterations in local substrate availability during moderate neuroinflammation. rdcu.be/dLXf4

I am very happy to share my recent work published in Nature. nature.com/articles/s4158…

🗣️Hiring #postdoctoral fellow (see flyer)! If you are curious and intrigued by the neuroglia crosstalk within the spinal sensorimotor network, please consider applying. Feel free to contact me if you want to know more!✨

Pain from conditions such as endometriosis could be alleviated if the gut’s resident bacteria can be understood and tamed. go.nature.com/4eeSoDS

Distinct circuits and molecular targets of the paraventricular hypothalamus decode visceral and somatic pain: Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

In #JNeurosci, Doris Wang shows that their novel approach for recording the electrical activity of the spinal cord in participants identifies oscillatory patterns in the neural signals that correspond to voluntary movement: jneurosci.org/content/44/32/… Poojan Shukla

Thrilled to announce that, finally, after a (very very) long way, our paper on the role of astrocytic GLUT1 in energy metabolism is published in Science Advances . science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Want to know more about it? 👇👇

Hot preprint alert!!! Please check out our study led by the amazing Pia Rodriguez on how mitochondrial fission regulates astrocyte morphogenesis! Unexpected findings linking astrocyte mitochondria to tiling and gap junction coupling!!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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In a new Science study, researchers report a previously overlooked contributor to the meningeal immune landscape in early brain development: group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s). Learn more ⬇️ 📄: bit.ly/3YzGBJE #SciencePerspective: bit.ly/4fg4zkc

A new study sheds light on why, in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, mutations in the PTEN gene lead to impairments in neurons that inhibit neural activity – and how these can be mitigated. elifesciences.org/digests/94520/…

Our review on the emerging roles for primary cilia in synapses and neurological disorders is now online! 😍sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Inflammatory mechanisms underlie #scoliosis linked with faulty cilia in zebrafish 📹: Morgane Djebar et al Sorbonne Université in eLife - the journal ➡️: bpod.org.uk/archive/2024/1… with John Ankers

#IASAT25 is happening! The 5th meeting of the International Association for the Study of #Affective #Touch will be held in Jena, Germany 9-11 June 2025. Submit your proposals for symposia and abstracts for open talks/poster here iasat2025.uni-jena.de deadline mid-December

Thrilled to share our work with F. Debarbieux & Regenlife! 🥳Special congrats to V. Escarrat for showing dorsoventral PBMT reduces inflammation & improves sensorimotor deficits in a mouse MS model—a step toward safer, non-invasive treatments✨ 📖 doi.org/10.1186/s12974…

“Wet dog shakes”—a common reflex behavior shared among many hairy mammals and designed to expel water and irritants from their coats—happens when particular mechanoreceptors are activated, researchers studying mice report in Science. Learn more: bit.ly/4hHUfmL

12 Months of #Neuroscience March 2024 We can now see oxygen in the brain! It is already providing insight into why a sedentary lifestyle risk for diseases like #Alzheimers this #URochesterResearch method via NedergaardLab made the discovery using a protein similar to what gives

Male-female comparisons are powerful in biomedical research. Unraveling and harnessing mechanistic etiologies of sex differences may reveal new diagnostics and therapeutics for the aging brain. More from us in the latest Neuron issue on aging. Bérénice A. Benayoun, PhD ctmurphy1.bsky.social

Interested in #oligodendrocyte metabolism and/or #multiplesclerosis? Our paper is now at Biorxiv! We show that oligos express MCT2, the high affinity monocarboxylate transporter, well known for supplying neurons with astrocyte-derived lactate (astro-neuron lactate shuttle)👇

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