ADHD linked to evolutionary success in ancient humans newatlas.com/science/adhd-e…

🔍 Job Opportunity Alert! 🌟Full-time tenure-stream position of Assistant Professor in the area of nutritional sciences, UoFT, TFoM, Department of Nutritional Sciences Check out details and apply here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-As… #AcademicJobs #NutritionalSciences #CareerOpportunity

Interested in Computational Neuroscience in 🇨🇭? Looking for a PhD or masters thesis project? 👀 Check out the impressive network of labs! #neuroAI #compneuro #AcademicTwitter #neuroTwitter #neuroX #machinelearning swisscompneuro.org

FASTMAP is an #opensource plugin for ImageJ. It allows for registering biological images within brain atlases. It also segments biological labels of interest within brain regions. Dylan Terstege Read about FASTMAP in this week's post on OpenBehavior: edspace.american.edu/openbehavior/p…

We're excited to share a new preprint on how, in mice, stress-driven increased fat intake involves altered control by the prefrontal cortex over the lateral hypothalamus. 👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… This project was spearheaded by the talented duo Rogier Poorthuis and Laura Supiot

Very proud of our latest pre-print, looking at Parental Brain function in a whopping >35,000 females and males. We show potentially protective effects of parity (number of children parented) on age-related brain function for BOTH females and males! 💪🧠

We are thrilled to announce the arrival of The Pregnancy Journal - a brand new open-access journal and the first official journal for SMFM! SMFM members, check your inbox for all the details. Additional information is also available at smfm.org/journal.

We heard it's Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend 👀🏃‍♀️ Tune in: Carleton Science Profs. Kim Hellemans and Francine Darroch explain the many benefits that aerobic exercise like running can provide on your health and well-being. 🧠✨ Learn more about the magic of running: newsroom.carleton.ca/story/running-…

What drives our choices to use more or less cognitive effort for reward? I’m excited to share our new paper out now in #eNeuro SfN Journals: “Short-term memory capacity predicts willingness to expend cognitive effort for reward.” doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO… (a 🧵)

Our new microglia morphology pipeline tool is officially published in eneuro! eneuro.org/content/11/7/E…

Healthy Brain and Mind Research Centre ENIGMA-Addiction Consortium & ENIGMA Consortium are excited to announce Sex differences in Addiction: An International Consensus Workshop WHEN:  Sept 27th 13:00-16:30 PDT Organised in conjunction with experts from NIDAnews FREE registration: forms.gle/8P8qAvWhdWedFk… More info⬇️

🧵In this Science webinar, a panel of experts comprising researchers, clinicians, and industry innovators Dr. Liisa Galea Professor Henriette Svarre Nielsen, dr.med Aris Papageorghiou will explore the unique health challenges that women face and the crucial role of sex-specific research science.org/content/webina…

🌟 Cai Lab nature paper alert! In new work led by Joe Zaki, we find that rest periods after learning not only stabilize new memories BUT ALSO integrate new memories with older ones from days past! (1/9) Read it here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

🚨 Deadline Alert: Apply for the Chief Science Advisor's Youth Council by Dec. 15! 🌟 Don’t miss your chance to make a difference by bringing youth perspectives to key science discussions in Canada. 🌟 📥 Details & apply: science.gc.ca/site/science/e… #YouthInSTEM

We’re hoping to do some research looking at ultra processed food discussions and parent wellbeing, spending & food choices for their children. If you’ve got a child under 5 we’d love your thoughts on our ideas, especially if … (cont) 5 minute survey here bit.ly/4grUFfr

Time to repost this. We are looking for a for a future colleague to join our comprehensive cancer research institute at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, with graduate appointment at U of Toronto. Thx for spreading the word.

Ever wondered how gut microbes control immune responses at extra-intestinal locations? Here, #theonlylabever reports how a gut protozoan commensal microbe remotely shapes pulmonary immunity to exacerbate asthma and limit the dissemination of mycobacteria. Cell ⬇️(1/X)

Chronic intermittent fasting impairs β cell maturation and function in adolescent mice: Cell Reports cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Two collaborative papers with Karl Deisseroth, 21 years apart, (with daily collaboration in life during the intervening period.) I will provide a full explainer thread on this study shortly, but have to first say how fun it is to do science with this brilliant guy☺️

Our latest study on the effects of sucrose on brain development is now featured by Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health The article highlights our findings on how a maternal high-sucrose diet in rats affects steroid hormones in the mother, fetus and placenta. centreforbrainhealth.ca/news/how-does-…