Happy to share our latest findings, thank you to all the team🙌Heilig Lab

So many people from so many different backgrounds having so much fun together! This is #Science !! What a #retreat -Markus

Congratulations to Kanat Chanthongdee and Sanne Toivainen Eloff for having successfully passed their half-time control! 🤩🎉Supervisors Markus Heilig Estelle Barbier and Esi Domi (all the way from Italy for the occasion!) are happy and proud!

Goda nyheter: LiU får nära 57 miljoner från Vetenskapsrådet för två nya excellenscenter, ett inom sociologi och datavetenskap och ett inom psykiatri. Peter Hedstrom Heilig Lab Analytical Sociology LiU IEI liu.se/nyhet/miljonre…

Our director Markus Heilig and CSAN researchers Eric Augier The Augier Lab and Irene Perini Irene Perini discuss their work on #alcohol #addiction on the second episode of the mini-series "Alkoholexperimenten" on "Vetenskapens Värld". svtplay.se/video/jwq3YVA/…

44 miljoner kronor till #forskning inom #medicin och #hälsa vid LiU när Vetenskapsrådet delar ut en dryg miljard i anslag. liu.se/nyhet/forsknin…

Do you want to know about the role of EZH2, an epigenetic target that modulates compulsive alcohol intake? Come by my poster this morning, monday 14th #SS14 #SfN2023 ❗️My lab is hiring! Open postdoc position #epigenetics #braincircuits #anxiety #alcohol 🧠🍺

Congratulations to our first MD PhD Hanna Karlsson! 🤩 Supervisors Irene Perini and Markus Heilig are proud and happy. 🎈🎓Below, happy moments during the discussion with the fantastic opponent, Bo Söderpalm. Hurrà hurrà hurrà! 🎈🤩

Postdoctoral position available in my lab ❗️ liu.se/en/research/cs… CSAN #fearmemory #epigenetics #observationfear #braincircuits 🧠 [email protected]

Sexually dimorphic control of affective state processing and empathic behaviors cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

Happy and science-infused CSANers after a three-day 'Center for Systems Neurobiology' retreat in beautiful Vadstena! CSAN Linköpings universitet

This is NOT the brag Rutgers University thinks it is… The university, the grad school, the department, and the advisor should be deeply ashamed of putting her in this position.

How do opioids promote addiction? The recent article from the lab of Christian Lüscher in nature beautifully delineates distinct µ-opioid neuronal ensembles mediating reward and relief from fentanyl withdrawal in mice. nature.com/articles/s4158… Michele Petrella Nature News & Views

On my way to #fens2024! 🧠 Come visit me at poster PS06-28PM-162 on Friday at 14 to talk about sex differences in compulsive alcohol drinking! ♀️♂️🍷

New paper alert! Our research describing the role of Nucleus Accumbens Shell in punishment-resistant alcohol self-administration is out now in Neuropsychopharmacology. Huge effort from first author Allison McDonald, and the many coauthors who helped. rdcu.be/dPp1x

Does the brain change during pregnancy? You bet it does. How about doing 26 MRI scans on a single person pre-conception to 2 years post-partum. WOW! Laura Pritschet and colleagues nailed it with their new paper in Nature Neuroscience. Key Points: - The authors point out that pregnancy

Time for another CSAN seminar! Today Wolfgang Sommer Uni Heidelberg gave a very nice translational overview on the concepts of #habit and #compulsion in #AUD.

I am defending my PhD thesis next week and my public defense will be available on Zoom! When: Jan 16th, 2025, from 9.00 (Stockholm). Webinar ID: 685 2593 1464 Passcode: 794225 liu-se.zoom.us/u/coGe9hva9 My thesis is also now published electronically: doi.org/10.3384/978918…

She nailed it! Sanne Toivainen Eloff A Swedish classic: the spikning of the thesis. Looking forward to Sanne's PhD defense on April 11th!

Congratulations to our newest doctor Sanne Toivainen Eloff! Last Friday she brilliantly defended her thesis "Compulsive Alcohol Self-Administration in Rats: Neural Mechanisms and Sex Differences".