Mike Yassa
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Neuroscientist | Entrepreneur | Author
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Nicole Rust
1 day ago
How do brains manage it? For a long while, the hippocampus has been known to be involved (thanks to
@brockkirwan.com
,
@mikeyassa.bsky.social
and others) - eg individuals with hippocampal damage are impaired at tasks like the Brady task.
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Landed at
#SfN
and we have lots of fun new results to share. See below for Yassalab poster presentations. If you want to talk
#Alzheimers
or
#mentalhealth
come chat with us.
#SfN25
#neurosky
#neuroskyence
#academicchatter
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Imaging Neuroscience
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Dana M. Parker, Michael A. Yassa, et al: NODDI-derived measures of microstructural integrity in medial temporal lobe white matter pathways are associated with Alzheimer’s disease pathology and cognition
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Tallie Z Baram
2 months ago
Published! to NAIL human paraventricular thalamus, we imaged & aligned postmortem human thalamus labeled c calretinin. Finally a gold standard allowing mouse, rat human comparisons
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A Combined Neuroanatomy, Ex Vivo Imaging, and Immunohistochemistry Defined MRI Mask for the Human Paraventricular Nucleus of the Thalamus
Existing definitions of the human paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT) differ between histological and MRI atlases; this study addresses this conflict by leveraging MRI and histology in the ...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.70366
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Curing Alzheimer’s disease requires a radically different approach. Read my latest piece in
@thetransmitter.bsky.social
add a skeleton here at some point
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Eric Topol
6 months ago
He's right. "Nothing short of devastating" By
@holdenthorp.bsky.social
@science.org
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Tallie Z Baram
7 months ago
Gary lynch rocking a huge crowd talking about th 50 years of LTP
@cnlm.bsky.social
@serenadudette.bsky.social
@ucirvine.bsky.social
@mikeyassa.bsky.social
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#memory
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UC Irvine CNLM spring meeting fully in session! Celebrating decades of work on synaptic plasticity: From Molecules to Memory
@ucirvine.bsky.social
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The brilliant artwork by
@neurobatool.bsky.social
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DEI is under fire… but may be we need something better. I spent five years as a diversity officer in academia and this is what I’ve learned. Read my take at
@insidehighered.com
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Confessions of a Reformed DEI Officer (opinion)
We need to distinguish between good DEI and bad DEI, Michael A. Yassa writes.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/05/05/confessions-reformed-dei-officer-opinion
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Batool Rizvi
about 1 year ago
Ecstatic to receive my PhD today!! So incredibly thankful to my PI
@mikeyassa.bsky.social
for all his encouragement in growing my scientific career and endeavors. Also thankful to family, friends, and other mentors/collaborators! 😍🧠🎉
@elizabethhead.bsky.social
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