Sophie Rogers of the Corder @flybottleescape.bsky.social lab studies how a psychedelic drug with growing therapeutic promise can alter the brain in ways that help overcome traumatic fear memories. Read more in this brief by fellow NGG student Jafar Bhatti! www.upennglia.com/briefs/bib-p...

During development, how does the brain organize itself around the sensorimotor-association axis? Recent NGG @pennngg.bsky.social graduate Audrey Luo @audreycluo.bsky.social explores this in work explained by fellow NGG student Kevin Sun @kevin-y-sun.bsky.social. www.upennglia.com/briefs/bib-s...

Not all neurons shake during seizures… some stay surprisingly stable. See how NGG MD-PhD student Sophie Liebergall investigates how Ndnf interneurons are (or aren’t!) affected in a mouse model of Dravet Syndrome. www.upennglia.com/briefs/bib-n... #neuroskyence #SciComm #Epilepsy #DravetSyndrome

What happens to your brain after a brain injury? NGG graduate Rebecca Somach explores how mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) alters sleep-related neurons differently in males and females! Read more about it here! www.upennglia.com/briefs/bib-o... #NGG #neuroskyence #SciComm

That’s it for now, but look forward to more posts in the coming weeks! Thanks for reading!

And next, NGG student Liz Siefert @lizsiefert.bsky.social tested whether reactivating certain memories during sleep in humans can help with their recall later. Current NGG student Catrina Hacker @catrinahacker.bsky.social breaks it down. www.upennglia.com/briefs/bib-m...

Next up is NGG graduate Evan Gallagher’s work! Current NGG student Kara McGaughey @kara-mcgaughey.bsky.social explains how he investigated the novel positron emission tomography (PET) radioligand [18F]ROStrace as a possible in vivo biomarker for Parkinson's disease. www.upennglia.com/briefs/bib-p...

First up we have NGG graduate Mara Cowen @maracowen.bsky.social who used microscopic worms to study how genes that control neuronal connectivity are involved in social behavior. Current NGG student Jafar Bhatti breaks it down in this piece here! www.upennglia.com/briefs/bib-a...

To get a jumpstart, here are 3 articles published this academic semester so far.

Hello world! Welcome to the new account for the Brains in Briefs science communications blog. Run by PhD students in the University of Pennsylvania’s Neuroscience Graduate Group (NGG), we break down first author publications from current and former NGG students and try to make them more accessible.