Vidita Vaidya
Mom, Neuroscientist, Serotonin enthusiast, Professor at TIFR
- Reposted by Vidita Vaidya1/ 🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Excited and proud (& a little nervous 😅) to share our latest work on the importance of #theta-timescale spiking during #locomotion in #learning. If you care about how organisms learn, buckle up. 🧵👇 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 code + data 🔗 below 🤩 #neuroskyence
- Glad to see this published "Postnatal and juvenile fluoxetine treatment evokes sex-specific, opposing effects on mood-related behavior, gene expression, mitochondrial function, and dendritic architecture in the rat medial prefrontal cortex" doi.org/10.1016/j.bi....
- Reposted by Vidita VaidyaAwhile back we started a Slack group for psychedelic science. Researchers used it to organize meetups and panels at conferences. We discuss papers, including a lively discussion now of the Lu et al. preprint. DM @mikaelpalner.bsky.social or I if you work in academia and want to join
- Vital to profile India's genetic diversity - as the authors said - "The demographic history of India is also unique, with exposure to different environments and widespread admixture, followed by formation of numerous endogamous groups". www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Withania Somnifera (Ashwagandha) has been used for centuries in Indian traditional medicine as an 'adaptogen' that boosts stress resilience, but the cellular mechanisms and key beneficial bioactives that drive putative neuroprotective effects remain unclear..
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- Bombay in spring from the @tifrscience.bsky.social campus - the fleeting window of time before summer descend in full blazing glory!
- Random scribblings in a talk from years ago - from a spherical cow to an antennapedia version of a cow.
