New paper online! In 2018, we found a human brain signal that tracks real time fluctuations in mood/anxiety. Now Adam Jackson back-translates this biomarker to mice, dissects its circuit mechanisms, & tests its causal relationship to emotional state. 🧵1/6 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S08…

NEW LAB PAPER ALERT! Ever asked… How are different BLA interneurons organized to support distinct microcircuit motifs and how does this relate to their in vivo activity patterns across fear conditioning and extinction… We got you covered 👇🏾 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨🚨Pre-print alert 🚨🚨 Led by Oladepo Ibrahim: a computer-vision guided robotic commutator that can track mice & correct for animal heading direction changes. Simple to implement. Can be added to any existing commutator biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Also super excited to be elected alongside @Dr_Bediya as Chairs of the 2028 Frontal Cortex GRC 🤩🧠 We will place an emphasis on nurturing the next gen of cortex lovers, and to providing a platform for underrepresented cortex researchers across career stages and species 🐁🐒👩‍💼

Back home supercharged after a wonderful week at the GRC Frontal Cortex and GRS. Thank you chairs Shansky Lab @DavidEMoorman Shana Silverstein Julia Mitchell, PhD for everything. And a big thanks to everyone for the amazing science, conversations and all the fun!

Hands down GRC Frontal Cortex ‘24 was the best conference I’ve ever been part of. My inaugural GRS co-chair Julia Mitchell, PhD doing this along side me, Dr Becca, PhD 🐘 and @DavidEMoorman for a diverse/inclusive GRC, but THE TRAINEES - the scientific future is dazzling because of our community🫶🧠

Excited to present our work at SFN 2024. Thanks Inscopix for the award and congratulations to all the winners.

Ever wondered how cannabis consumption made you anxious/panic? Check out this preprint that sheds light on it! Thoroughly enjoyed working through this rollercoaster of a project!! Thanks Sachin Patel , Farhana Yasmin and Luis Rosas for the opportunity to work on this.

Dulac Lab Identifies “Loneliness” Neurons in the Hypothalamus Catherine Dulac Ding Liu Harvard University HarvardBrainScience Mostafizur Rahman Zuri Sullivan Mustafa Talay Brandon Logeman Lechen Qian @naoshigeuchida HHMI Rachelle Gaudet mcb.harvard.edu/department/new…

Our new study from Catherine Dulac led by the amazing Ding Liu. We identify the neural circuit that responds to social isolation consisting two distinct neuronal populations. We also demonstrate that lack of touch leads to emergence of social need.

✨ Announcing a new glutamate indicator - iGluSnFR4! ✨ Launched as a pair, iGLuSnFR4s and iGluSnFR4f have high-sensitivity and fast activation/deactivation for recording synapses. More on the indicators and what they are already revealing: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint alert!🚨 Mice on high-fat diet since adolescence show poor memory and altered in vivo spine dynamics - both rescued with time-restricted feeding for 4 weeks! Grateful to my postdoc mentor Freddy and our wonderful collaborators! 1/2 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…