Featured cellist Katsuaki Arakawa performing Cello Concert in A Minor, Op. 129 by Schumann with the ACO this past weekend as part of the Texas Rising Stars concert. youtube.com/watch?v=-rMT8l… #fyp #foryou #foryoupage #austin #austintexas #austintx #atx #atxlife #atxmusic

A new study in mice uncovers a developmental window in which neonatal nasal odor stimuli influence somatosensory information processing in the brain. The results in Science give insight into what drives the development of sensory processing in mammals. scim.ag/71D

Early Smells Shape Newborn Brains: Olfaction Linked to Touch Development Early exposure to odors is crucial for developing the sense of touch in newborn mice. Pleasant smells activate brain regions responsible for touch during the first week of life, indicating that olfactory

Is head-fixed awake animal a good model for natural perception? doi.org/10.1038/s41467… shows that it is not. Contrary to findings in head-fixed, our head-free mice (collab @oferyizhar) revealed thalamic POm and VPM both co-code head and whisker kinematics

Our research article is out now The posterior intralaminar thalamic nucleus promotes nose‐to‐nose contacts leading to prosocial reception in the sequence of mouse social interaction - Arakawa - European Journal of Neuroscience - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

Mapping the social lives of mice | Michigan Medicine Our research on Michigan news michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/map…

Serotonin circuits act cooperatively with pathophysiology of opioid us... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Our new review paper collaborated with my friend is out as a pre-proof version! Serotonin system is involved in mechanistic processes of opioid use disorders

Serotonin circuits act cooperatively with pathophysiology of opioid use disorder - a final version is open Really complicated serotonin processing is documented in opioid biology and pathophysiology sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Classification of psychedelics and psychoactive drugs based on brain-wide imaging of cellular c-Fos expression nature.com/articles/s4146…

Thalamic opioids from POMC satiety neurons switch on sugar appetite | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Processing of pain and itch information by modality-specific neurons within the anterior cingulate cortex in mice nature.com/articles/s4146…

Are you using GCaMP8 or planning to switch from GCaMP6? Then check out this new preprint from our lab! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… - Calcium imaging - GCaMP8 vs. GCaMP6 - Spike inference - Imaging + ephys ground truth With F. Helmchen, K. Svoboda karel svoboda, M. Rozsa & X. Fang.

Butler School of Music Chamber Groups Sweep MTNA Chamber Music Competition in Minneapolis music.utexas.edu/news/butler-sc…

A time window for memory consolidation during NREM sleep revealed by cAMP oscillation: Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

New online│ News & Views by Hiro Arakawa, PhD cautions against anthropomorphizing mice behavior. Are mice really trying to rescue unconscious peers—or are these just instinctual actions? 🐁🤔 nature.com/articles/s4168…

Peggy Mason, who helped define the rodent prosocial behavior field with the trapped rat paradigm in 2011, is now changing course and pursuing other scientific interests. By Sydney Wyatt thetransmitter.org/empathy/up-and…

Functional disruption of oxytocin projections participates atypical social and anxiety-like behaviours in BTBR mouse model of autism | Open Biology royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Finally published

Modern assays for assessing pain and related nociceptive and defensive actions in rodent models - PubMed. Discussion on pain measurement and conceptional issues pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41022255/