Why do we get the hiccups? Check out this week's fascinating article written by PNK writer Sophie to learn about hiccups and other brain reflexes we have inherited from distant ancestors pennneuroknow.com/2022/11/15/why…

This outstanding article in today's #IAESBlog is written by Sophie Liebergall through our partnership with PennNeuroKnow What is #AutoimmuneEncephalitis What part of the #Brain is affected? Which protein in the brain is the immune system trying to attack? autoimmune-encephalitis.org/different-type…

Check out my latest piece for PennNeuroKnow on the mysteries of “critical periods” during which early life experiences permanently shape learning and development. 🧠👀👂🗣️📝🎼

Meet Sophie Liebergall (Sophie), writer of this week’s PNK article “Window of opportunity for learning” which discusses “critical periods” and how early life experiences permanently shape our brains. Sophie is a 2nd year MD-PhD student in Penn NGG.

This week's outstanding #IAESBlog article, on the #Treatments for #AutoimmuneEncephalitis is brought to you by our partnership with the Ph.D. students at PennNeuroKnow Super helpful and easy-to-understand article! autoimmune-encephalitis.org/treatments-for… #antiNMDAr #encephalitis #Neurology

In the first of a two-part series for PennNeuroKnow we discuss some of the big (sometimes surprisingly) unanswered questions in neuroscience!

It's time for part two of our series, "Big unanswered questions in neuroscience" written by Penn NGG student Sophie! This week, we dive into our sense of time, how seizures occur, how the brain adapts after injury, and consciousness! #scicomm pennneuroknow.com/2023/06/06/10-…

New paper from UPenn MDPhD students past (Kevin Goff), present (Sophie) and future (Evan Jiang): cell.com/cell-reports/f… VIP-INs are dysfunctional in Dravet syndrome (Scn1a+/-) mice in vivo; deletion of Scn1a in VIP-INs dissociates autism-linked behavior from epilepsy

1/ Why can multiple sclerosis symptoms worsen with heat exposure, something known as the Uhthoff phenomenon? This question is especially relevant in the era of record-breaking heat waves and climate change. #tweetorial #medtwitter

Catch my latest blog for PennNeuroKnow on cortical spreading depolarizations, an understudied huge wave of activity that spreads across the brain during migraines and after injury…

Interested in L1 Ndnf interneurons, cortical circuits or persistent firing? This new preprint from my PhD might be for you! With Anna Schroeder, Rodrigo Alejandro, Rogier Poorthuis and my great but twitterless supervisor Johannes Letzkus (thanks to all of you!) doi.org/10.1101/2023.1…

Unlocking Ndnf interneuron's role in Dravet syndrome in #awakemice with Sophie from Ethan Goldberg lab! Using #MobileHomeCage & #2photonmicroscopy, they reveal potential epilepsy syndrome insights. Meet them at poster PSTR525.25/E8 #SfN2023 #SfN23

So after a year of working on it and many, many revisions here is my lab's take on the wonders of Layer 1! A bit shout out to Shuhan Huang Leena Ali Ibrahim who both did the heavy lifting in putting this piece together! Let us know what you think! cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

In a wonderful confluence of two of my favorite things (salty licorice and ion channels) the Liman lab has identified the sensor for ammonium chloride! The proton channel OTOP1 is a sensor for the taste of ammonium chloride disq.us/t/4jfp0n2

Our new paper studying SCN3A Epilepsy in an IPSC system by postdoc Guojie Qu, Penn NGG superstar Julie Merchant, and sodium channel maestro Jerome Clatot is in @Brain1848 at tinyurl.com/37xve8nr Great collaboration w/ the lab of Stewart Anderson CHOP Research

My latest post for PennNeuroKnow unpacks a recent paper from the Augustine lab Vineet Augustine which provides insight into the neural mechanisms of fainting!

Superstar Penn NGG student Sophie throws the kitchen sink at Layer 1 Ndnf cells to show unique preservation of Ndnf interneuron excitability among the major neocortical GABAergic interneuron subtypes in a mouse model of Dravet syndrome. jneurosci.org/content/early/…

A large number of neurons in the brain are “silent” even while we perceive and experience the world. A recent study sheds light on what they might be doing. Check out Penn NGG student Sophie new article for more insight! #scicomm #brainfacts pennneuroknow.com/2024/06/27/the…

Postdoc Eric Wengert (brain slice physiologist + educator extraordinaire) teams up with Penn NGG MDPhD student Sophie and three Penn undergrads: Impaired excitability of fast-spiking neurons in a novel mouse model of KCNC1 epileptic encephalopathy: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

From the outside, it may seem like published scientific research states facts on which all experts agree. However, this is not always the case. Explore 3 controversies in neuroscience in this week's piece written by Penn NGG student Sophie pennneuroknow.com/2024/10/08/whe… #scicomm