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Developmental and Evolutionary Neurobiologist. Nature lover.
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- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skmNew Year, new paper from our lab. Emily Kramer used 3D light-sheet imaging and tissue clearing to examine the spatial architecture of mouse amygdala engram ensembles. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skmNew Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵 rdcu.be/eVZ1A
- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skm1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skmOur special issue on Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness, coedited with Tecumseh Fitch and Adina Roskies, now online royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... Contributions by (1) Irina Mikhalevich; (2) Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg; (3) Nicholas Humphrey; (cont'd)
- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skmNew issue of Nature - with NINE studies on #brain #development from the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) 🧠🧪🔬 An amazing set of resources for all scientists working on the brain! 🧠 Immersive feature: www.nature.com/immersive/d4... 🧠 Perspective: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skmI am thrilled to share our latest work: we identified a population of central amygdala neurons that promote the earliest and perhaps most important social behavior: pup suckling!... We also developed new tools for pup neuroscience Work by @Jeff Moore now at USC, a collaboration with @Sam Pfaff lab
- A genetically-defined population of amygdalofugal neurons promotes suckling and early postnatal growth biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skmExcited to share our latest preprint led by @jarildy.bsky.social looking at social and non social reward representations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... with help from @hyma2194.bsky.social and @jennisisaac.bsky.social.
- Happy to share our new article with Júlia Freixes, Fatma Abdel-Rahman, Roberto Nebbia and @edesfilis.bsky.social on postnatal plasticity in olfactory areas of the juvenile swine, published in Brain, Structure and Function link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skmSad day for peope who still believe brain areas are the primary organizational units of function in the brain. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skm1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skmNew paper out in @pnas.org Thalamic CGRP neurons form a spinothalamic pain pathway relaying pain signal to the amygdala & insular, but not sensory cortex to encode the affective dimension of pain. Huge congrats to first author Sukjae Kang & coauthors. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skmHow does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skmAlert! ... for the child development world! @fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive. Check here: docs.hbcdstudy.org and here: nbdc-datahub.org Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skmNEW PAPER🎺 How does cognition determine an individual’s fitness? A systematic review of the links between cognition, behaviour and fitness in non-human animals Lots of studies try to explain how cognition might evolve, by taking a behavioural ecology approach Has this approach made any progress?🧵
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- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skmNew preprint from lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Sexual dimorphism arises not through wholesale transcriptional reprogramming, but via selective sex-specific survival of neurons defined by birth order and shared developmental programs.
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- Journal of Comparative Neurology | Systems Neuroscience Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skmToday in @nature.com , we report a spatial single-cell atlas of human cortical development, revealing surprisingly early specification of human cortical layers and areas. We built an interactive browser to explore the spatial data: walshlab.org/research/cor... Paper link below 👇
- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skmI’m excited to share a new paper from the lab. The study led by Xiaowei Gu reveals how the mPFC encodes complex emotional memories, using an internal model to infer emotional associations and memories via projections to the amygdala. a🧵(1/8) rdcu.be/el19t
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- Happy to share a short commentary I wrote remembering Professor Rudolf Nieuwenhuys rdcu.be/ejuRl which was published by Brain Structure and Function @springernature.com , within the collection Rudolf Nieuwenhuys: Neurofascination link.springer.com/collections/...
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- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skmThanks to all who contributed to the special issue of Cerebral Cortex honoring my career academic.oup.com/cercor/issue...
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- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skmLots of good preparatory work done in Lisbon, looking forward to what is to come! #AffectEvo
- And here we are - all basking in some Lisbon sunshine ☀️ #AffectEvo-Lisbon2025
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- Reposted by did:plc:n6nxjg7mh2hd6vffem3c6skmOur paper @dulaclab.bsky.social on social homeostasis is online today! We characterized “social rebound” behavior after social isolation in multiple mouse strains and revealed its neural basis. Intriguingly, soft touch plays a key role in satisfying social need! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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