🙏 @sfnjournals.bsky.social now out! & while celltype &ephys are alike across sexes, behavioral functions and axon terminal distribution in NAc and brainwide diverge by sex and #stress. @ladenardo.bsky.social

Finally dropped! fantastic collaboration with @ladenardo.bsky.social, whole-brain analyses of our novel CRH/GABA BLA-NAc projection shows impact of earlylife stress that are sex dependent & reflect reward behaviors www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... @thebalelab.bsky.social @kundakoviclab.bsky.social

Rachael hokenson @neurohoke.bsky.social slaying unexpected, spectacular estrogen effects on stress and menory @sfn.org @kundakoviclab.bsky.social @thebalelab.bsky.social

Are you in for the long haul? Mentoring the next generation of brain scientists?🧠🧪 this is your opportunity to be recognized @acnporg.bsky.social @npp-journal.bsky.social @storiesofwin.bsky.social @ahmarilab.bsky.social

Incredible opportunity to showcase your promising drug targets at @acnporg.bsky.social this year! This is a new session that has been popular in attendance with clinical trial unblinding and novel therapeutic targets. 💊📊. Get those abstracts submitted! @sbilbo.bsky.social @talliezee.bsky.social

🧪🧠 a new AI tool created by scientists to review and critique scientific papers? Does it do a good job for Neuroscience? Better than us? Or a great buddy? Ill try today. Your thoughts? @svmahler.bsky.social @scinews.bsky.social

acnp.org/annual-meeti... Promising Targets at @acnporg.bsky.social ! 💊 This a great way to ensure your late breaking pharmacology - clinical trial unblinding, drug study or preclinical pharmacological study gets attention! Was a very hot session last year. 👏

@ecnp.eu 🧪🧠 packed auditorium for @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social @talliezee.bsky.social early life stress and #resilience @gsrnet.bsky.social . An exciting human nouse conversation @thebalelab.bsky.social

@ecnp.eu , #Ecnp2025 is chock full of amazibg sessions! Look firward to @carmensandi10.bsky.social award talk!

@ucirvinemedschool.bsky.social the UCI EPILEPSY RESEARCH CENTER is celebrating its first symposium in the Falling leaves foundation building!!! Kudos bobby hunt

A delightful, friendly, great science conference! 🧠🧪🤗

Published! to NAIL human paraventricular thalamus, we imaged & aligned postmortem human thalamus labeled c calretinin. Finally a gold standard allowing mouse, rat human comparisons onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social @flagel-lab.bsky.social @mikeyassa.bsky.social l

Just dropped! 🧠🧪how to pinpoint brain cells activated by early-life #stress then determine their #epigenomic and #transcriptional changes that govern adult behaviors. Led by @amaliaflorious.bsky.social @svmahler.bsky.social @cate-cholamine.bsky.social @thebalelab.bsky.social doi.org/10.3389/fnin...

Mike yassa leads an engaging discussion on the future of the @cnlm.bsky.social .🧪🧠@smahler.bsky.social @ucirvinemedschool.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social

Do we really understand childhood adversity? In Dr. Tallie Z. Baram’s study @ucirvine.bsky.social, funded by NIH and NIMH, @talliezee.bsky.social discovered that unpredictability is itself a significant form of early-life stress. Advocate for this critical research: impact.uci.edu/research/

Excited to share our latest paper - now out in @science.org - we showed how oxytocin modulates maternally-directed behavior in young mice (P15).

In a packed retreat of anatomy/neurobiology an neurobiology/ behavior departnents, marcelo wood providing current state of uci neuroscience in 2025 USA 🧪🧠 @svmahler.bsky.social @ucirvinemedschool.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social

Hey does anyone know where to get TTX these days? 🐡 None of our usual sources have it

Summertime #FluoresenceFriday and the colors are exploding (#Jazz in background). the amazing diversity of basolateral #amygdala cells expressing corticotropin-releasing hormone and projecting to the nucleus accumbens @martinowk.bsky.social 🧠🧪#NeurobiologyofStress

Isn't the brain beautiful? The ephemeral glowing purple strands against a dark background are timely. They represent axons of CRH-expressing neurons in basolateral amygdala projecting onto dorsomedial striatum #FluorescenceFriday🧠🧪 @martinowk.bsky.social @svmahler.bsky.social @gsrnet.bsky.social

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Caling neuroscientists worldwide! @gsrnet.bsky.social 🧪🧠

You KNOW you've arrived, mainstream, when your invention is turned into an open source asset!🧠🧪 Kudos @deryasargin.bsky.social www.eneuro.org/content/12/6... @cate-cholamine.bsky.social @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social @zenbrainest.bsky.social @sfn.org #StressNeurobiology @carmensandi10.bsky.social

Nope, this isnt Victorian #fashion. For #FluoresenceFriday you're looking at the thalamic paraventricular nucleus 🧠 🧪showing juxtaposition of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) cells (red CRH-IRES-cre x TdTomato) & cells expressing endogenous CRH receptor CRHR1. By terrific Jorge Mendoza

What a fun opportunity! 🧪🧠 a previous intern, dr gretchen neigh discovered the powerful predictive value of social media mentions on the future citations of a paper. Press releases had no impact. @cate-cholamine.bsky.social @svmahler.bsky.social @thebalelab.bsky.social

If you see a fork in the road-take it. or take a pic. #FluorescenceFriday here, CRH cells in basolateral #amygdala bifurcate to Nucleus accumbens (Red), and Bed Nucleus (green) dual-projection cells are yellow. Isnt brain cool?🧠🧪 @svmahler.bsky.social @martinowk.bsky.social @sciencejuls.bsky.social

Trying to adapt to the 'interesting' new world reality? This amazing meeting aims to unite your brain and psyche. check it out?🧠🧪 @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social @cate-cholamine.bsky.social @carmensandi10.bsky.social #NeurobiologyofStress @bangasserlab.bsky.social @sfn.org

Please dont forget what #stress might do to your synapses and #memory (so recommended is a relaxing weekend, all). Quantifying dendritic apines in the hippocampus. #FluorescenceFriday 🧠🧪 @martinowk.bsky.social @svmahler.bsky.social #Neurobiologyofstress @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social

Women in Neuroscience #WIN. Celebrating a great talk by Jeanne Paz, and Chris Gall's research award in balmy Southern Cal. @amepilepsysoc.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social @epilepsiajournal.bsky.social @cnlm.bsky.social @neurohoke.bsky.social

Chris gall getting the major research award of the @ucirvine.bsky.social @cnlm.bsky.social @mikeyassa.bsky.social

Your frontal lobe at age 12 months predicts your working memory now? 🧠🧪 I keep being impressed with the power of longitudinal neuroimaging. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... by the impressive margaret sheridan! @dylanggee.bsky.social @jamielarsh.bsky.social @mikeyassa.bsky.social @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Fully grown-up now! 🧪🧠I heard @monteggia.bsky.social describe her 'baby' story about #ketamine for #depression a couple of years ago. It has now exploded in last week's Science, promising sustained efficacy! www.science.org/doi/full/10.... @svmahler.bsky.social @superkash.bsky.social @science.org

Thank you Mathias! Your view as the founder of the European Stress meeting and a thought leader in the field just made my week! 🧪🧠 #Stressneurobiolgy

Celebrating UCI school of medicine graduate students 🧪🧠 . You are the future of #science @ucirvine.bsky.social @cnlm.bsky.social @neurohoke.bsky.social

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 🧪🧠 #memory @franklandlab.bsky.social

#FluorescenceFriday. Oops

🧠 🧪I am still awed by this live imaging of microglia (green) surveying #stress-sensitive CRH cells (red) in #hypothalamus and lopping off extraneous synapses. By the amazing @jessicalbolton.bsky.social #FluorescentFriday

Boy, even the birds around here, @ucirvine.bsky.social @cnlm.bsky.social are blue! @bangasserlab.bsky.social @svmahler.bsky.social @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social

What happens to the rest of the🧠when we silence our favorite node / projection? 🧪innovative #fMRI & computation modeling uncover curious, location-dependent connectivity remaps. Bravo! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @univ-amu.fr @svmahler.bsky.social @ahmarilab.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social

very 😎 work just in by @dr-stan.bsky.social , dissecting discrete components of decision making under motivational conflict! 🧠🧪 www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1... @svmahler.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social @sfn.org

ICYMI, an amazing opportunity! Consider joining us as we grow! 🧠🧪 #depression #psychiatry @acnporg.bsky.social @adaaa.bsky.social

Fascinating! 🧪🧠 #NeurobiologyofStress

Some weeks, you need #FluorescenceFriday already on Tuesday @martinowk.bsky.social 🧪🧠

Jeremy, thanks. This is most helpful to all NIH funded and hopeful proposal submitters 🙏. Kudos for taking up this crucial leadership role, providing trustworthy information🧠🧪

🧪🧠 a monumental 30 year long road to validaing the "area temestas" inn primates. Implications for #epilepsy, #depression #alzheimer? 🏅🏅 @karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social @diegopizzagalli.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social #neurosurgery @epilepsiajournal.bsky.social

When the executive branch disagrees with a court ruling, the answer isn’t to ignore it — it’s to appeal to a higher court. We did that. We won. That’s how law and order works.

Serena dudek slaying it in #esc2025 remotely, overcoming NIH travel restrictions. @carmensandi10.bsky.social @cate-cholamine.bsky.social @🧪🧠 @neurohoke.bsky.social @gsrnet.bsky.social

JUST dropped! Neuron review with Matt Birnie on the evolving neurobiology of early-life stress. Where is our field? what are our challenges? where and how do we move forward? www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... would love your thoughts🧠🧪 @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social @cate-cholamine.bsky.social

In the European stress conference, cutting edge talks by the best of the best!! @cate-cholamine.bsky.social @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social 🧪🧠 @gsrnet.bsky.social

Please share 🧠🧪 🙏 #NeurobiologyofStress #Neuroskyence @thebalelab.bsky.social @ahmarilab.bsky.social @bita137.bsky.social @siegenthalerlab.bsky.social @ebbsociety.bsky.social @acnporg.bsky.social @denisejcai.bsky.social @cate-cholamine.bsky.social