“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives…. on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” -the Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan ✨🌏

NEW STUDY! Building on pioneering work by Dr. Alison Goate, an international team of researchers, led by #IcahnMountSinai's Anne Schaefer, ID'd distinct population of neuroprotective #Microglia that may point to new therapeutic approach for #Alzheimers. @nature.com 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Does pounding of your heart makes you feel afraid, or does the feeling of fear cause your heart to race? 
The Cannon-Bard and James-Lange theories have shaped a century of debate about emotion and physiology. Biologically, the brain and body dialogue is dynamic, continuous, and bi-directional!

Some spiritual traditions believe the 'self' as a coherent, enduring entity to be an illusion, there is also a tangible 'bodily self' that forms the basis of this notion through somatosensation. Fascinating Primer by Pattrick Haggard and @mattlongo.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

The #brain is often viewed as rather separate from the rest of body. One way it is separated somewhat is the BBB — the blood-brain-barrier. Fabulous primer by @axelmontagne.bsky.social and Audrey Chagnot www.cell.com/current-biol...

📣We are hiring! 📣 
Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher to study brain–body interactions uncovering how neural and physiological systems regulate behavior and energy metabolism under stress! Details are below: 📩 [email protected]
🔗 careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/3032214

This Lancet Neurology article emphasizes that lifestyle interventions like physical activity, nutrition, sleep quality and stress management are important for symptom management and disease modification in Parkinson’s disease. Lifestyle is not just fringe! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"The way forward has become very clear"- Dr. Brendan G. Carr A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to @ericjnestler.bsky.social named Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine. We’re thrilled about the exciting new direction Icahn Mount Sinai will take under Dr. Nestler's visionary leadership!

A hypothalamus-brainstem-heart circuit regulated by oxytocin on heart rate variability. Another cool brain-body work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Such a nice collection of brain-body interaction articles in the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social. Love the beautiful vagus nerve on the cover by Andreas Vesalius www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our Primer on Sickness and the Brain: how are inflammatory signals and the brain coordinate to make us sick? in the new issue of Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol... together with @Zuri A. Sullivan

Happy #Diwali to all who celebrate! First public school holiday in NYC. 🪔✨ Diwali reminds us to shine our inner light, illuminating wisdom and dispelling the darkness of ego, division, and ignorance. In Nepal, during Diwali the friendship and love of dogs is also celebrated.

Amazing work by @jun and team 🙌

Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #neuroskyence

Online now: Galnt2 neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus counterregulate hypoglycemia via a brain-liver neurocircuit

It is #WorldMentalHealthDay and been reflecting that mental health is a whole #brainbody ecosystem shaped by how we eat, sleep, connect, move, move, and live. Science and ancient wisdom agree: we can’t separate mind, body, or environment. Healing begins where biology meets connection. 🙏

It was so fun sharing with Equinox about the importance of heart health for brain health. Brain-body connections are critical for health, well-being and vitality ✨ #brainbody. Thank you for sharing @sinaibrain.bsky.social

Academic path isn’t easy, but the joy of discovery, finding possibilities for healing and mentoring trainees keeps me going. Celebrating submitting two manuscripts on brain–body stress interactions & a master’s thesis defense. Grateful to my lab & special thanks to @neuromanonyc.bsky.social 🙏✨

I'm thrilled to share that our new paper is now published in Psychophysiology (Open Access): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social

Save the date 📆. On Oct 22/23, @nationalacademies.org will hold a stellar virtual workshop on brain/body interations (open to all). www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...

So amazing that our graduate student Sanutha Shetty presented her work on the role of #breathing circuits on stress-related cardiometabolic outcomes at the Cardiovascular Research Institute Retreat and won a best trainee talk award! @sinaibrain.bsky.social 🙌

William James saw the brain as a filter of bodily signals shaping thought, memory and emotion. That psychological processes require bodily input, brain processing and then action. A century later, science has come full circle to this same mind–body insight! #mindbodyconnection

Nepal stands at a new turning point and a bold new chapter. With its first female Prime Minister and a parliament dissolved by the youth to form a new government against corruption and inequality, this moment is exemplary! Hopeful for Nepal. 🙏

Thrilled to receive the NoA for an R35 grant from NIGMS to study brain–heart communication under stress! Despite challenging times, grateful to @NIH for funding our work and to @scottrussophd.bsky.social, @EricJNestler, @filswirski.bsky.social @mcalpinelab.bsky.social and @Paul Kenny for support.

Miami is hiring a neurobiologist! I am excited to welcome a new colleague to our Neuroscience community! Please share! miamioh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/miamio...

As much as we focus on dis-ease, why do we not focus on research on true health/vitality/wellbeing also including Nutrition (nourishment from whole and/or plant foods), Movement (body and breath)🏃🏻‍♀️, Connection (nature, others and Self) and Rest (sleep, meditation)?🧘‍♀️. Much science pointing to these!

Neurons are cool, but do you work with something cooler and understudied like the Blood-Brain Barrier? As a Guest Editor, I invite you to submit manuscripts focused on the Brain-Immune-Vascular interface for NPJ Dementia! More info at www.nature.com/collections/... #Neuroscience #Alzheimer

Online now: Semaglutide effects on energy balance are mediated by Adcyap1+ neurons in the dorsal vagal complex

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 Inactivation of the nucleus reuniens causes relapse of extinguished fear. Here we show this “circuit-induced relapse” depends on hippocampal fear memories and is mediated by hippocampal engrams. Congrats to the team!

Just published our study on brain-heart interactions and COVID-19. We found that brain-heart interactions at the ICU onset indexes mortality risk and acute encephalopathy duration. We also found that maladaptive dynamics are associated with acute cognitive impairment 👾

So glad to contribute to the @sinaibrain.bsky.social newsletter on #metabolism, #vagusnerve and #brainbodyhealth! Check out the emerging research on the brain and body interactions!

The Brain-Body Research Institute @IcahnMountSinai is hiring an Associate Director to build clinical and translational research in brain-body sciences. See ad here: neuroscience.mssm.edu/pdf/Brain-Bo.... @sinaibrain.bsky.social @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social @brainbodylab.bsky.social

A great opportunity!

Sahay lab (www.sahaylab.com) is seeking applications for a 10 week long summer research internship from undergraduates (US Citizen/ F1 Visa holder) for 2 Center for Curiosity funded "Curiosity Scholars in Neuroscience”. 1/n

Autonomic physiological coupling of the global fMRI signal www.nature.com/articles/s41... "The global fMRI signal is a substantial component of the arousal response governed by the autonomic nervous system."

Aren’t mental and physical health bi-directionally connected and in a continuum at every level of nutrition, environment, energy, movement, rest, stressors etc? Why is there an arbitrary boundary between mental and physical health? 🤔 #brainbody

A diet rich in diverse carbohydrates outperforms faecal transplants in mice at restoring microbial diversity, which has been linked to a range of health conditions. https://go.nature.com/3EM8U1u

Sometimes, even amidst the chaos and uncertainty, there is something to be grateful for 🙏🏽 #mindbody

We are delighted to announce the appointment of @paulkennyphd.bsky.social, the Ward-Coleman Professor in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and Chair of #NashNeuroscience, as Interim Director of The #FriedmanBrainInstitute. 🎉💯 Please join us in offering a huge congratulations to Dr. Kenny!

If memory is constantly evolving, can you reshape your past, not by erasing it, but by understanding and reframing it? In See Memory, painter Viviane Silvera uses art to explore memory and #PTSD. NOT TO MISS! Learn More About & Stream "See Memory", the Film www.pbs.org/video/see-me...

A drop of milkshake takes a wild ride as it passes through the body. Rachel and Kiersten and the team came up with cool strategies for visualizing food passing through the mouse GI tract and mapping the activity of the same 100s of brainstem neurons across weeks during feeding and other behaviors.

Incredible to see growing science on yogā-postures, breathwork, and meditation— for brain injury, metabolism, pain, reproductive health, pregnancy etc at Neuroscience and Yogā conference. Ancient interoceptive wisdom on body, mind, thought awareness is holistic medicine!

Excited to share our new study: "Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses" by @andreamunozz.bsky.social, @aaron-douglas.bsky.social & team at @tcddublin.bsky.social, in collaboration with @lydialynch.bsky.social & @drchristineannd.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

With accompanying News & Views article by Pamela Toh & @brainbodylab.bsky.social at Mount Sinai. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It was great for our lab to write this. #brainbody #metabolism

Sanutha Shetty (graduate student) will be presenting a poster (2007) from 1-3 PM today on her exciting work that integrates breathing, stress and body health at the inaugural Keystone conference on Interoception. She would love your feedback! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

Pamela Toh and I were thrilled to be invited to write a News and Views @nature.com on memory engrams and whole body metabolism by Zamora and colleagues #metabolism #brainbody www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The brain-adipose tissue axis: discovery of a new pathway for potential mitigation of stress-induced anxiety @naturemetabolism.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...