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This is Your Brain on Hormones - Transcript

We don’t have hormones, hormones have us.

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🚨Happy to share a new preprint from Lerner Lab led by graduate student @nadelneurosci.bsky.social! 🚨 “Adolescent stress recruits a latent amygdala-dopamine circuit to drive punishment-resistant reward-seeking” This has been a wholly impressive effort by Jacob; summary below 👇 #neuroskyence🧪

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2d ago

Adolescent stress recruits a latent amygdala-dopamine circuit to drive punishment-resistant reward-seeking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.29.741478v1

Dopamine and sodium appetite! Sodium appetite causes a 'sign change' in the taste of hypertonic NaCl solutions. We've previously shown that generation of the appetite recruits phasic dopamine to the taste of NaCl; here we show the 'derecruitment' process during satiation.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 2w ago

Rapidly decreasing phasic dopamine responses precede a hedonic switch during satiation of sodium appetite https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.16.738888v1

We are saddened to share that we lost a luminary in our field yesterday. Dr. Steven Maier died suddenly with the love of his life, Linda Watkins, at his side. Dr. Maier was one of the founders and intellectual giants of our society. He was funny, creative, brilliant, and kind.

New preprint led by @christineliu.art! How do psychedelics improve cognitive flexibility? Psilocybin prevents inflexibility caused by aberrant mesocortical error signaling (but not inflexibility due to other mechanisms); this is tied to plasticity of PFC-MD neurons: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Psilocybin selectively rescues cognitive flexibility impairments caused by aberrant prefrontal error signaling

Psychedelic drugs show remarkable potential for treating psychiatric disorders, but the mechanisms underlying their therapeutic effects remain relatively unknown. Here, we demonstrate that psilocybin ...

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I am happy to share our latest manuscript, led by newly-minted PhD Justin Wang, identifying a neural population that selectively controls hedonic, but not homeostatic, feeding. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ventral pallidal GABAergic neurons control hedonic feeding and obesity

Food intake is governed by two interacting drives. The homeostatic hunger drive regulates food intake to fulfill caloric needs while the hedonic drive promotes intake of palatable foods outside of cal...

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Hey you! 🧠🧪 Are you an early career neuroscientist? Do you want to learn more about publishing, share your perspectives, and strengthen the global neuroscience community? Come join the JNeuro ECR Board! Applications due July 17: www.jneurosci.org/content/ecr-...

Looking for a postdoc? The @sciolinolab.bsky.social at UConn is hiring! We investigate how neuromodulatory systems interact with central taste processing regions to regulate behavior using in vivo recordings, optogenetics & mouse behavior. Apply: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...

This study identified ventral CA1 of the hippocampus as a sex-dependent regulator of alcohol-related approach-avoidance decision making

Sex-dependent role of the ventral hippocampus, but not its projection to the medial prefrontal cortex, in a novel operant conflict-driven ethanol choice task

Neuropsychopharmacology - Sex-dependent role of the ventral hippocampus, but not its projection to the medial prefrontal cortex, in a novel operant conflict-driven ethanol choice task

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Excited to share this preprint from @ianoldenburg.bsky.social . To evoke movement with holo stim, you need the right pattern at the right time! Interestingly, the preparatory state before spont motion is not the same as the state permissive for evoked motion. Dig in! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The Importance of Synchrony in the Neural Control of Movement

Throughout the mammalian cortex, populations of neurons must work together to enact behaviors. While population recordings in motor cortex have revealed many aspects of when neurons fire during behavi...

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You’re at the bar having that first drink of the night 🍻 the excited, energized feeling you may have is the “stimulant response” to alcohol - a risk factor for alcohol use disorder. We researched an understudied cell-type’s role in this response #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

I had the honor of speaking with one of SciAm’s #SciAmYoungScientists, Jaye Gardiner @thegardinerlab.bsky.social. I was struck by Jaye’s enthusiasm for research and the genuine care she has for her students. Her love of science goes back to high school chemistry. @sciam.bsky.social

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Learning how the matrix around cells and tissues impacts cancers

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Congrats to @zachtpennington.bsky.social on receiving the 2026 William & Nona Heaslip–Banting Discovery Award for his work analyzing the brain’s emotion‑related circuits! This award will support his research in identifying novel treatment targets for anxiety disorders.

Dr. Zachary Pennington receives Banting Discovery Award - Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | DMCBH

Congratulations to Dr. Zachary Pennington, an Assistant Professor in UBC’s Department of Psychology and researcher at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for

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Our brain is constantly looking for patterns. When something unexpected happens, we notice it more in a predictable context, than in an unpredictable environment. Our study identifies how the auditory cortex amplifies responses to unexpected sounds in predictable contexts. doi.org/10.1523/jneu...

I’m so honored to be part of the 2026 Leading Edge Fellows Zara Weinberg Cohort. Excited to join this amazing community of leader scientists!

Leading Edge Fellows Program@leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 40 remarkable postdocs pursuing transformative research in biological/biomedical sciences. This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/

Recruiting for a salaried 4-year PhD project (or two) in Oslo We seek someone dynamic, curious & fun! Work closely w other PhDs in neuroscience/biology & w our three brilliant Knockout project postdocs (psychology/pain/behavioural genetics) Please share widely www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhD-fellowship (301774) | University of Oslo

Job title: PhD-fellowship (301774), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, June 24, 2026

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New paper from the lab. Using longitudinal ca imaging, activity-dependent tagging and optogenetics, we show that newly allocated fear engram neurons in amygdala undergo a brief period of coordinated “offline reverberation” immediately after learning. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We have extended the deadline on this until June 8 when I'm back from holiday - please pass along to anyone you think would be interested! I've got email with me so drop me a line if you would like more details

Kate Jeffery@katejj.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Job alert! We are seeking a rodent in vivo electrophysiologist to work on coordination between anterior thalamus and hippocampus in rats using Neuropixels. Beautiful Scotland, leading university (Glasgow) and vibrant intellectual setting. Post is 23 months but hopefully extensible. Details here 👇

The Central Nucleus of the Amygdala Encodes the Motivation to Pursue Ethanol https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.11.724330v1

Overall very cool stuff. A reconfigurable instrument that repurposes equipment investment in adaptive optics, SLM, lasers, to do a lot of different things 🧪

Rita Strack@ritastrack.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The MOSAIC paper is out in Nature Methods. For the record I went after this paper for *years* and was so happy when they sent it to me/us. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to share my main postdoctoral work out @nature.com ! This project tackles a fundamental question: how do pregnancy and postpartum experiences promote lifelong changes to the brain? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dopamine drives persistent remodelling of the maternal brain - Nature

Brain-wide transcriptomic profiling in mice reveals that reproductive experience remodels the maternal brain by altering dopamine dynamics in the dorsal hippocampal formation, causing dopamine-depende...

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Where, exactly, does learning happen in the brain? Out today in @nature.com, we identify a synaptic locus of birdsong learning and show that the circuit can be tuned to make birds learn faster - but at a cost. Read on👇 #neuroskyence 🧪 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics Shareable link: rdcu.be/fiyrS

A synaptic locus of song learning - Nature

Combining a computational framework and optogenetic and chemogenetic manipulations within and downstream of the cortico-basal ganglia circuit identifies the specific cortico-basal ganglia synapse...

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We were all blown away last summer in Switzerland when @tuthill.bsky.social presented this work at the Sensation and Action conference.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Researchers have long searched for the neural circuit underlying locomotion. Now they’ve found it in flies. By @natmesanash.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

Missed this one from March on an improved GABA sensor. Would love to hear from others if they have tried it out. elifesciences.org/articles/108...

iGABASnFR2 is an improved genetically encoded protein sensor of GABA

An improved genetically encoded GABA sensor enables the most effective direct optical measurement of inhibitory neurotransmission to date.

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Part 2. Registered reports remove the incentive for positive data (the original sin of science). Publication is conditional on following peer-reviewed methodology, not having "novel" results or p<0.05. This is Part 2, check out Part 1 if you missed it. #science #research #stem #ethics #podcast

Now in peer-reviewed form: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A brain reward circuit inhibited by next-generation weight-loss drugs in mice - Nature

Humanized&nbsp;glucagon-like peptide&nbsp;1 receptor (GLP1R) mouse models&nbsp;are used to investigate the neural circuitry through which small-molecule GLP1R agonists modulate feeding, with implicati...

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Happy to share with you that we have a new preprint up on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social " Biased signaling at NTSR1 differentially regulates inhibitory synaptic transmission in the extended amygdala and suppressess motivated feeding in mice" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Stick With Me Liz Lemon (Tina Fey)

Alt: Stick With Me Liz Lemon (Tina Fey)

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Automated behavioral segmentation and markerless pose tracking of mice during spaceflight https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.30.721950v1