BLA & mPFC inputs to VP-projecting NAc D1-MSNs/D2-MSNs change in different manners after cocaine CPP and abstinence. While inputs on Vp-projecting D1-MSNs show postsynaptic plasticity inputs to VP-projecting D2-MSNs show presynaptic plasticity rdcu.be/cG0cf Yoni Kupchik

Meet Temple College of Liberal Arts #gradstudentspotlight 🎓 Andre Toussaint is a doctoral student in the Cognition and Neuroscience Program who was recently awarded a prestigious Simons Foundation Junior Fellowship. Read more here! liberalarts.temple.edu/news/2022/02/g… #templeuniversity #neuroscience

Collab paper with Wilder Doucette and kyle smith is finally out after a long & arduous peer-review journey! Chronic chemogenetic manipulation of ventral pallidum targeted neurons in male rats fed an obesogenic diet: authors.elsevier.com/c/1enJH_A2ZAUYk (50 days free-access link!) Integrative Neuroscience at Dartmouth (IND)

YAYYY, my big paper from my postdoc on #microglial pruning of stress-sensitive CRH+ neurons during early-life stress is finally out!!! This has been >5 years in the works, so big shout out to all co-authors, and especially my mentor Tallie Z Baram (thread below) cell.com/cell-reports/f…

👁️4 a #postdoc on brain mechs of reward & how they r affected by developmental insults? Want to develop rat behav. models of disorders? We have a special opportunity for a 'well-paid' ($60K+) position 4 new PhDs, starting as late as early spring '23 in my lab.Intnl scientists OK!

Our new preprint (with Soyoun Kim and others) addresses a mystery in neuroscience: the entire brain fires during movements, so how does that not interfere with every other brain function? Hint: it involves #manifolds! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵1/13

Excited to share my lab’s first preprint! This project was a wild ride, and I couldn’t be prouder of Eliezyer de Oliveira and Soyoun Kim, who spearheaded it. Please RT and follow them - they are both superstars who will be tweeting lots of cool science in the years to come!

Very excited to share the 2nd installment of my PhD work out now in Translational Psychiatry! We find that early life adversity causes anhedonia for opioid drugs in males, similar to what we have seen for food, social reward, and other drugs... 🧵 1/4 nature.com/articles/s4139…

I'm so excited that our paper on neural representations of compulsive drinking decision-making signals is finally out in Nature Communications! A big thanks to everyone who helped! #alcoholresearch #AUD #neuroscience #ephys #NIAAA #IUPUI Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

Very excited to start on this UC Irvine collaboration! We will examine how early life adversity resulting from resource scarcity alters transcriptional landscapes that may predispose heroin #addiction #SABV UCICAN UCI CNLM @UCIrvineSOM Christie Fowler Tallie Z Baram vivek swarup Wood Lab

Orbitofrontal cortex populations are differentially recruited to support actions biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

Defended! The biggest thanks to Stephen Mahler for taking a shot on me and molding me into the scientist I am today. Much love to Mahler Lab and those who supported me 🥳 I'm thrilled to start my new journey at Luke Sjulson Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine as a #K00 fellow!

Congratulations to Rianne Campbell (she/her) who received the Michael Shipley Neuroscience Postdoc Award! Recognized by critical thinking and passion for continued learning in neuroscience & honors the legacy of Dr. Shipley the founding Director of Univ of Maryland School of Medicine Neuroscience Program in Neuroscience.

Massively excited to share our lab’s first original research paper! Amazing work by Brenda Abdelmesih, PhD illuminating the role of PeFA Ucn3 neurons at the intersection of stress and infant-directed behavior. Special thanks to collaborator Dj Bambah-Mukku nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Happy new year! Start 2023 out right by checking out our new preprint on work led by Ally examining encoding of cue-elicited reward seeking by ventral pallidal GABA neurons! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New paper out studying the postnatal development of PV interneurons in a truly collaborative project. Thanks to Jess Cardin Martin Vinck @heyclaireward Antara Majumdar 🧠👩🏽‍🔬💫 Kasra Nikouei for the great work and team spirit! nature.com/articles/s4138…

I just feel so lucky to work with this amazing people! Luke Sjulson we are doing something right 😉

Excited to share a review that Mary Kay Lobo and I wrote on novel neural mechanisms related to psychostimulant use! I was so happy to have this opportunity to shine light on some of the most interesting recent work within our field! authors.elsevier.com/c/1hqoZ3Q9h2Ee…

Glad to see my work finally gets published🥺🥺🥺 Extracellular ATP neurotransmission and nicotine sex-specifically modulate habenular neuronal activity in adolescence jneurosci.org/content/early/…

I am eally thrilled to share my first postdoctoral paper out in Nature Communications. Incredible collaborative effort! Many thanks to all the people involved and especially to Marsicano Lab and Lisa Roux (first paper of the lab 🥳). nature.com/articles/s4146…