For some reason I feel obligated to retweet this. Happy holidays all...

Delighted to end 2022 with our first paper out today in Cell Reports, and our image on the cover! Huge congratulations to first author Ashwini Hariharan!! We show #brain #pericytes increase blood flow to decreased local energy availability to preserve energy supply to #neurons.

Our new case series on menstrual changes associated w/ psychedelic use is out, including a case of inducing menses in someone with amenorrhea. First literature on this since the 1950s. Interesting psychoneuroendocrine and sex difference q’s to be explored tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Congrats Diana! Well deserved 👏

Excited to have a new paper out today from data that contributed to Kara’s thesis project in Mathur lab! Thanks KKC_BBQ and Brian N. Mathur for letting me join team thalamus! #teamthalamusforever 🧠🧠🧠 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37022333/

The Caras Lab wants to hire a lab technician to work on our NIH funded project on the neural circuits that support auditory perception, plasticity, and learning! Ideal for someone looking to gain research experience before grad school. See caraslab.org for details!

Endocannabinoids are powerful synaptic modulators, but there's so much we don't know about how they signal. Here we show that *postsynaptic synucleins* are required! Shoutout Yue Sun🧬🐀🧠, Yulong Li Lab, @SudhofThomas, Jun Ding and the rest of the team! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Literally the only good thing about this name change is that it has put this in my head youtu.be/zvgGNaTH7ds

We are thrilled to announce the post-Covid reboot of the Society for Claustrum Research Annual Meeting. Come hear a great line-up of speakers and share your poster! Please retweet! Registration details here: tinyurl.com/SFClaustrum

🚨🚨 To prospective PhD Students (or their mentors): Univ of Maryland School of Medicine Neuroscience's PhD Program is having a virtual open house on Nov 8th at 5PM EST. This is an opportunity to learn about the program, application process, student life, and meet UMB researchers doing cutting-edge science! 🧠🧬🐁🔬

We are hiring a postdoc! Check out our work and the group at thejuarezlab.com. 🧠🐭✂️🧬🔬

now in Current Biology 🧵 Pathological claustrum activity drives aberrant cognitive network processing in human chronic pain led by Brent Stewart (who's on the postdoc job market!) w/ Brian N. Mathur Martin Lindquist @CormieMatthew @massihmoayedi Sarah Margerison + sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

check out this commentary on TWO new papers on claustrum and pain Current Biology by Zizhen Zhang & Gerald Zamponi Chronic pain: Central role of the claustrum in pain processing cell.com/current-biolog…

🧠🍄 Psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound in magic mushrooms, temporarily resets entire networks of neurons responsible for controlling a person’s sense of time and self, finds a new study. For nature w Joshua Siegel Shan Siddiqi @shansiddiqi.bsky.social Brian N. Mathur nature.com/articles/d4158…

Looking for a neuroscience faculty position within a culture of community? Apply here 👇

Open technician position in my lab! This is a highly supportive and educational work environment. Please rt / apply! umb.taleo.net/careersection/…

📢Hot off the press! Excited to share our new paper in molecularpsychiatry on the role of ERβ in stress vulnerability. Thanks to all of the authors involved Panos Zanos Brian N. Mathur Kirmizis Lab Michael Patton nature.com/articles/s4138… A thread🧵

Serotonin and psilocybin activate 5-HT1B receptors to suppress cortical signaling through the claustrum doi.org/10.1038/s41467…