Light your candles and cross your fingers

Whoa SO COOL to see the Lewin lab @garyrlewin.bsky.social figure out why naked mole-rats *have* TRPM8 but couldn't sense cold after nerve injury. Turns out their TRPM8 is nonfunctional, and they sense cold in a different way. VV cool! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Is it mirror neurons, or is it the perception in Perception Action Model of empathy: recognition of salient information in social partners. To me the cortical neurons in nocebo and are not bound to social interaction. How to handle it: look for the same neural patterns in contextual conditioning.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40247818/ New paper from @damboorman.bsky.social and Loren Martin woo!

Whut, I was working on a similar paradigm when I was at Stanford! Very validating to see another group publish it 😝 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... I'll add that females will drag their unconscious casemate toward the cotton nest occasionally.

🧠🐭📊🔬🧬BIG PREPRINT UPDATES: Mimicking opioid analgesia in cortical pain circuits We built a brain-behavior framework to decode spontaneous chronic pain in mice—and to biologically mimic morphine with our synthetic opioid gene therapy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/15

My arguments: 1) it was already like this for most postdocs for the last 3 decades 2) universities will always be a cheap place to train people how to think, which is what a phd is and 3) universities discover stuff in the process of training those phds journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted? Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky scienceimpacts.org

The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

Cholecystokinin input from the anterior cingulate cortex to the lateral periaqueductal gray mediates nocebo pain behavior in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.04.636522v1

Cholecystokinin input from the anterior cingulate cortex to the lateral periaqueductal gray mediates nocebo pain behavior in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.04.636522v1

If you haven't already, check out the BADASS preprint from my colleague Blake Kimmey @bakspace.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 We see overlapping but not the same bregma activation of the PAG in nocebo and placebo responses, SO much to explore!

New awesome #Neuroskyence!! 🧠

And check out the AWESOME work of my new colleagues in the Corder lab woo!!

Hey everybody, I want to share a few things about my recent #preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Take a break ☕ for some cool #neuroscience on #nocebo, #ACC, #PAG, and #CCK in mice to take your mind off of the goings on 👩‍🔬