The Crunchometer is a low-cost, open-source technology that uses bite sound to democratize the microstructural analysis of feeding bouts on solid food: 🧪 The Crunchometer: A Low-Cost, Open-Source Acoustic Analysis of Feeding Microstructure. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

The Crunchometer: A Low-Cost, Open-Source Acoustic Analysis of Feeding Microstructure https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666891v1

A new paper from the laboratory Neurobiology of Appetite at Cinvestav. We introduced the OptoDrive! To record and optogenetically stimulate the brain of freely moving mice www.eneuro.org/content/12/6...

A new paper out of Laboratory Neurobiology of Appetite! Developing an automatic algorithm to detect head weaving stereotypes induced by DA appetite suppressants journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

A nice write up about the new work coming out of the Rutgers Center for NeuroMetabolism www.rutgers.edu/news/two-rut...

Excited to share our latest story: "The gut-brain vagal axis governs mesolimbic dopamine dynamics and reward events" 🎉. Big congrats to 1st author Oriane Onimus 💪 🥳 & many thanks to all those involved 🙏🙏. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Gave a talk at my parents’ retirement community to describe how science is done, and what is at stake. There was a ton of interest, and anyone can do this. Get the word out about how science affects everyone. I’m happy to share slides with anyone who asks- just get in touch! youtu.be/BY_SFgi-Cig

The new Rutgers Center for NeuroMetabolism is officially hiring faculty at all levels! Come be my colleague! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/248...

New preprint from the lab, here we study head waving stereotypy induced by some appetite suppressants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper from the lab!!! D2-expressing neurons in accumbens is rewarding but paradoxically it stops licking! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

What if… spontaneous neural activity 🧠 reflects the baseline rumblings of a brainwide dynamical system initialized for learning? We find that the rumblings have macroscopic properties like those emerging from linear symmetric, critical systems 🧵 #neuroscience #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) are transforming the treatment of obesity and diabetes (and more). Our recent pre-print examined next-gen small molecules mimicking GLP-1, using humanized mouse models to uncover how they interact with brain circuits driving food consumption. 1/15

New work stemming from an amazing collaboration with @addisonwebster0 and @AUGCsoup using a combination of rabies mapping and single cell sequencing to identify a GLP1R-expressing local input to AgRP cells that curbs appetite rdcu.be/d2gB5

A little late for Thanksgiving but if you have friends and family members curious about anti-obesity medications, this is very easy to digest piece (nailed that pun....still got it) authors.elsevier.com/a/1kCED3QW8S...

Order matters: neurons in the human brain fire in sequences that encode information www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Optoception from a biohybrid graft. Really cool!!!

Neuronal ensembles in accumbens act as independent modules to process sucrose reward www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Neuronal sequences are also present on gustatory cortices www.cell.com/iscience/ful...