In a new @usatoday.com article, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's John Krystal, MD, both advocates for and cautions the use of ketamine therapy in teenagers suffering from depression.

Supported by a $5M @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social Depts of Neurosurgery & Psychiatry have launched a study to uncover the neural & genomic mechanisms driving anxiety. Initial pilot work was funded by Yale Center for Brain & Mind Health + @kavliatyale.bsky.social

A new @journalofnucmed.bsky.social study shows how a novel PET radiotracer (SV2A) can track synaptic changes in a rat's spinal cord & brain post-injury. @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's Jason Cai, PhD: "Our work has potential to revolutionize the way spinal cord injury is diagnosed."

🚨 Only 3 days left to register! 🚨 Yale postdocs, don’t miss the Oct 9th @kavliatyale.bsky.social Chalk Talk event, featuring tips by @schandralab.bsky.social & a mock talk by @trevorsorrells.bsky.social! Register Today!👇 yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Wonder why social needs differ from childhood to adulthood? 🤱➡️🧑 In a new @currentbiology.bsky.social study, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social researchers, led by Marcelo Dietrich, found that Agrp neurons in the hypothalamus 🧠 drive social needs during youth but slowly lose this role in adulthood.

In a new study led by @kavliatyale.bsky.social graduate student @kathy-ayala.bsky.social 👩‍🔬, researchers studied 51 pregnant women in their third trimester🤰 and found that higher fetal movement was linked to stronger maternal-fetal attachment.🤱✨ Read more here 👇

📅 Mark your calendars and join us Thursday, Oct 9, for the 2025 edition of the Kavli Chalk Talk! 🧠 Learn from @schandralab.bsky.social & @trevorsorrells.bsky.social about what makes a great chalk talk 👩‍🏫🗣️ and senior postdocs can practice their own. Register by Sept 25! (Yale only) 👇

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for last Friday’s @kavliatyale.bsky.social Networking Hour, hosted by @colon-ramos-lab.bsky.social! 🙌 Missed it? No worries—you’ll have another chance at the next one! 😉🎉

🚨LAST CHANCE TO APPLY🚨 Senior postdocs — the deadline to apply for #SYNAPSES is THIS SUNDAY! Don’t miss this chance to showcase your latest work at our in-person symposium 🧠✨ on Oct 23, 2025. @yaleneuro.bsky.social Apply Today! 👇

Fantastic work from the labs of ‪@stevewcchang.bsky.social, @neuralnandy.bsky.social, and Monika Jadi, led by Olivia Meisner & Weikang Shi. Our Kavli Institute is proud to have supported this research through our neurotechnology core (marmoset apparatus for automated pulling).

It is great to welcome @shariwiseman.bsky.social (back) to Yale along with the Yale Neuro Postdoc Committee [YNPC], @kavliatyale.bsky.social, and @yaleneuro.bsky.social ! Pictures are of her first talk to a packed room of trainees, about scientific publishing and related careers

Excited to share my first-author paper in Early Human Development! Using objective monitoring, we found more frequent fetal movement is associated with stronger maternal–fetal attachment, offering new insight into bonding during pregnancy. #MaternalHealth www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How do brain networks tracking past trauma react to stress in the future? Thrilled to share new work from the lab led by rockstar postdoc @felhardi.bsky.social with wonderful collab @dylanggee.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #psychscisky #neuroskyence

This week's #TraineeTuesday is Aya Khalaf, PhD! Aya is a postdoc in the Blumenfeld lab in #Yale Neurology. She recently published an article in NeuroImage showing how different senses—vision, hearing, touch, and taste—activate the same deep brain regions during transitions in attention [1/5]

Meet this week's #TraineeTuesday, Michael Hanna, PhD, @mike-hanna.bsky.social‬! Mike is a postdoc in the @pdc-lab.bsky.social & will start as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State University in January 2026. Congratulations! [1/5]

In a recent @natneuro.nature.com article, a team led by @yifeicai.bsky.social &‪ @jgrutzendler.bsky.social used protein tagging, mass spectrometry, & expansion microscopy 🔬to explore how the protein composition at the myelin-axon interface differs in Alzheimer's 🧪

Mark your calendars 🗓️ for June 23 for a Kavli Awards Research in Progress!🧠 Hear from Drs. Bhaskar (@krishnaswamylab.bsky.social‬), @lashaeneuroxp.bsky.social‬, Chen (@emonetlab.bsky.social)‬, Martinez-Magaña (@janitzamontalvo.bsky.social), @kuanawanda.bsky.social‬, Teefe, & ‪‪@haohy.bsky.social‬.

Very proud of our new #SingleCell work on #PTSD and #MDD out in @nature.com today. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and views: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Press: medicine.yale.edu/news-article... Data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Code: github.com/mjgirgenti/P...

It's on Monday, see you there!

Meet this week's✨ #TraineeTuesday: Soraya Scuderi, PhD!👩‍🔬✨ Soraya is an Associate Research Scientist in the Vaccarino Lab & recently published a @cp-cellstemcell.bsky.social study introducing DuoMAPS —a revolutionary brain-on-a-chip platform 🧠💻 that better models neural tube regionalization. [1/5]

In a new @natmicrobiol.nature.com study, @yale.edu researchers showed that contrary to popular belief, typhoid toxin (leading to typhoid fever) damages the blood-brain barrier endothelial cells —not neurons— paving the way for new therapies. 🧪

In our most recent paper, we uncover the myelin-axon interactome in human brains and reveal molecular perturbations and structural disruptions at the myelin-axon interface in Alzheimer’s disease @jgrutzendler.bsky.social @epetsalaki.bsky.social @reimand.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A recent pair of @natgenet.nature.com studies co-led by @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's @roelverhaak.bsky.social & ‪‪ @kevin-johnson.bsky.social sheds light on glioblastoma 👁️, the heterogeneity of its cellular composition, and how these cells evolve with time 🧬🔬 #BrainCancer @yalecancer.bsky.social

Congrats to @yale.edu senior Parisa Vaziri on winning the 2025 Kavli at Yale Undergraduate Thesis Prize 🏆! Working with @mcdb-yale.bsky.social's Damon Clark, her thesis uncovered a novel auditory illusion👂& the algorithms underlying it. Next, she'll pursue a PhD in Neuroscience at Harvard.

Congrats to @yale.edu Neuroscience senior Zach Moynihan on winning the 2025 @kavliatyale.bsky.social Undergraduate Thesis Prize! 🧠 During his thesis, titled “Application of predictive score to identify novel microcephaly genes”, Zach was mentored by Drs. Tanyeri Barak & Adife Gülhan Ercan-Sencicek.

In a new @nature.com study, a team of @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social researchers led by Tomomi Yoshida, Andrew Wang & David Hafler, found evidence of T cells in the brains of healthy mice and humans —not only as a response to infection— uncovering a new form of gut-brain communication.

In a new @plosone.org study, a @yale.edu team of researchers led by Laura Manuelidis, MD, developed the first cellular model of a latent Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease infection —similar to mad cow disease— revealing how specific conditions can switch the infection on and off.

In a new @elife.bsky.social study, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social’s Anthony Koleske, Amanda Jeng, & Yevheniia Ishchenko revealed how 3 variants of the gene TRIO 🧬 drive distinct neurodevelopmental disorders 🧠 by altering communication between neurons.

Join us THIS FRIDAY 🗓️, June 6, for @yale.edu's ✨NextGen in #STEM Conference✨ to learn from scientists who took different career trajectories, and connect with faculty and industry professionals. Organized by grad student and Kavli scholar April Pruitt and faculty member @ehoffmanlab.bsky.social.

In a new study, @yale.edu's Hirsch lab used neuroimaging & real-time eye contact 👁️ to study the social brain 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧠 and found that people with First Episode Psychosis showed comparatively less brain activity in a key area related to social cognition.

Mark your calendars 🗓️ for June 23 for a Kavli Awards Research in Progress!🧠 Hear from Drs. Bhaskar (@krishnaswamylab.bsky.social‬), @lashaeneuroxp.bsky.social‬, Chen (@emonetlab.bsky.social)‬, Martinez-Magaña (@janitzamontalvo.bsky.social), @kuanawanda.bsky.social‬, Teefe, & ‪‪@haohy.bsky.social‬.

In a new study, a team of @yale.edu researchers led by Aya Khalaf & Hal Blumenfeld from Yale Neurology analyzed fMRI data and found that multiple senses 👁️✋👂👅 activate the same two deep brain hubs that control consciousness 🧠—the midbrain reticular formation and central thalamus.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year's @kavliatyale.bsky.social Distinguished Lecture 🗣️ & a huge thank you to the amazing Erika Holzbaur 🙌 for sharing her insights! 🧠

🚨HAPPENING TOMORROW🚨 Don’t miss the 2025 ✨ @kavliatyale.bsky.social Distinguished Lecture✨ with @pennmedicine.bsky.social's Erika Holzbaur, PhD! All @yale.edu affiliates are welcome — you’ll want to be there 🧠🥂

Calling all @yaleneuro.bsky.social postgrads, grad students & postdocs! 🧠Join us for a workshop on the Essentials of Mentoring🤝 led by @yale.edu 's Dr. Suzanne Young 🙌 📅 Wed., May 21 | 🕙 10am–12pm 📍 Room 180A See flyer for more details and info on how to register 👇

In 1️⃣ week! On May 20th, we are delighted to host Erika Holzbaur, PhD, from @pennmedicine.bsky.social, who will give the 2025 @kavliatyale.bsky.social Distinguished Lecture ✨ This event is open to all Yale affiliates, and a reception will follow.

In a new @yale.edu study, researchers led by @mattgirgenti.bsky.social from #YalePsychiatry used a comprehensive multi-omic approach to analyze postmortem brain 🧠 genomics and investigate the molecular differences 🧬 in PTSD and major depressive disorder 🔍

Meet @nobelprize.bsky.social laureate James Rothman & renowned neuroscientist Joy Hirsch — #YaleMed profs 🥼, Branford College fellows, and hosts of monthly science dinners at Mory’s 🧠🍽️ Together, they blend world-class research with everyday life @yale.edu

We love to see the impact of our seed grants! Congratulations to the @yale.edu Vaccarino & Levchenko labs, 2020 #Kavli Innovative Award recipients, for their new paper offering new insight into how morphogens help regulate the development of stem cells into specialized brain cells.

📢 @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social is teaming up with @ucsfhealth.bsky.social 🤝 to launch a two-site clinical trial! Led by Gerard Sanacora, MD, PhD, & Sophie Holmes, PhD, the study will explore psilocybin's 🍄 potential as a new treatment for depression in #Parkinsons.

Excited to share our latest study of the PTSD prefrontal cortex out @GenomeMedicine. rdcu.be/ejZ3T Our systems biology approach established a brain multi-omic, multi-region analysis comprising individuals with PTSD and MDD

Check out this new article where @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's @carolynfredericks.bsky.social, MD 👩‍🔬 helps explain various preventative measures one can take to reduce ⬇️ their risk of developing #Alzheimers. 🧠

In a conversation with Gill Eapen🎙️, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's Prof. George Dragoi 🥼 discusses the role of internally generated representations in memory 🧠 and spatial navigation! 🗺️ 📽️ Watch the full interview 👇

A study by @janitzamontalvo.bsky.social & former @kavliatyale.bsky.social awardee @jjaimemartinezm.bsky.social finds that 85% of genome-wide association study participants are European—exposing a disparity that limits our understanding of genetic influences on mental health.

Researchers from @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social, led by Gawon Cho, PhD, found that poor sleep patterns 💤 are linked to brain atrophy in regions tied to #Alzheimer’s. The study highlights sleep's 🛌 role in metabolism ⚙️ and memory 💭

Thank you, Junjie! I’ve learned that fellowships are all about: apply 💪, get a few gentle “no’s” 😅, and finally a YES 🎉. Grateful for all the guidance and support from the lab and beyond!

Congratulations to the 2025 Yale Kavli Innovative Teams Award recipients! 🎉 From immune engrams to the neuroscience of touch, these collaborative projects exemplify the power of team science. #KavliNeuro

Thrilled to see the 2025 Yale Kavli Postdoc Fellows announced! Huge congrats to Zhen Lei and Madeleine Junkins—your work is inspiring, and we’re proud to support the institute that helps make it possible! #KavliNeuro #KavliInstitute

🥳 Congrats to Zhen Lei (@junjieguo.bsky.social & @davidbreslowlab.bsky.social) and Madeleine Junkins (R. Medzhitov & Rui Chang) for being awarded the 2025 Kavli Postdoc Fellowship 🏆—pushing neuroscience forward through interdisciplinary, dual-mentored research!