Francesco Papaleo Lab
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Papà, Neuroscientist (Social Behavior, Cognition, Psychiatry). Work @ IIT. Worked in 🇮🇹🇨🇵🇺🇸🇪🇺 Web: geco.iit.it
HIRING a Post Doctoral Fellow to work with us! In collaboration with Andrea Escelsior. Required skills: - Systems neuroscience, translational psychiatry - In vivo calcium imaging (e.g., fiber photometry, miniscope) - Optogenetics and/or circuit manipulation Contract length: 2-4 years
ERASMUS+ INTERNSHIP in LIFE TECHNOLOGIES - Evaluation of neural circuits involved in normal and degraded socio-cognitive behaviors, and mechanisms of brain-to-brain communication. app.ncoreplat.com/jobposition/...
ERASMUS+ INTERNSHIP in LIFE TECHNOLOGIES - Evaluation of neural circuits involved in normal and degraded socio-cognitive behaviors, and mechanisms of brain-to-brain communication.
Commitment & contract: internship within the Erasmus+ Traineeship programme for undergraduate students enrolled in a master’s degree programme; the position requires a time commitment of 24-32 hours/w...
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Nature research paper: Evidence accumulation from experience and observation in the cingulate cortex go.nature.com/4qE2Uu0
Evidence accumulation from experience and observation in the cingulate cortex - Nature
Humans and monkeys integrated experiential and observational evidence during a two-player task, and the anterior cingulate cortex combined the information sources into a unified neural belief representation that explains behavioural asymmetries.
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Facial gestures are enacted through a cortical hierarchy of dynamic and stable codes
Facial gestures are one fundamental set of communicative behaviors in primates, generated through the dynamic arrangement of many fine muscles. Anatomy shows that facial muscles are under direct contr...
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This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
🎉 Big news! The first IBNS 2026 keynote speakers are now announced! More will come... www.ibnsconnect.org/keynotes-2026 @ibnsconnect.bsky.social #IBNS2026
🚨 Big news for the neuroscience community! The Call for Abstracts, Travel Grants and Registrations for #FENS2026 is officially open! 🧠 👉 Register and submit your work today: https://loom.ly/usQR0ao
Time to get working on your symposium proposals! 📣 Roll call -Who's coming to Cape town? -Who needs speaker suggestions for a panel? -Who'd like to join a panel (especially trainees!) @mfendt.bsky.social @dr-stan.bsky.social @nicoleferrara.bsky.social @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social
International Behavioral Neuroscience Society@ibnsconnect.bsky.social · 11mo agoWe are excited to invite all behavioral neuroscientists to the 35th Annual IBNS Meeting at Cape Town, South Africa June 23-27, 2026! Call for Symposia / Satellite Proposals Deadline: Tuesday, October 28, 2025 More information can be found at ibnsconnect.org/meetings
Oxytocin seals the blood–brain barrier, improving 22q11.2 deletion syndrome trajectories url: academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
Oxytocin seals the blood–brain barrier, improving 22q11.2 deletion syndrome trajectories
Castellani et al. show that intranasal administration of oxytocin during the neonatal period alleviates behavioural and immune alterations in a mouse model
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Oxytocin closing the Blood Brain Barrier?? 🧠 😊 Check out our new paper showing this unexpected effect with consequences on behavioral trajectories, microglia activation, peripheral immune system... academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
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Official call for PhD fellowship in our lab here, THEORETICAL AND APPLIED NEUROSCIENCE. Call is open till middle of August. Looking forward to working with you :) www.unicam.it/bandi/2025/b...
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BANDO DI CONCORSO PER L’AMMISSIONE AL CORSO DI DOTTORATO DI RICERCA DI INTERESSE NAZIONALE "THEORETICAL AND APPLIED NEUROSCIENCE" - CICLO XLI (a.a. 2025/2026). NOTICE OF COMPETITION FOR ADMISSION TO T...
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The heat won’t stop the energy — science (and fans!) in full swing! 🔆🪭💪 #EBBS2025
Come to Genova in October, 2-day Workshop on Social Behavior and its Dysfunctions. FREE registration, info in the attached Flyer:
Sex differences in brain–behavior relationships in the first 2 years of life url:https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article-abstract/35/6/bhaf133/8158513
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VTA-ACC dopaminergic circuit mediates trait anxiety-related observational learning of social avoidance in male mice - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - VTA-ACC dopaminergic circuit mediates trait anxiety-related observational learning of social avoidance in male mice
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Neuropeptidergic transmission shapes emergent properties of prefrontal cortical circuits underlying learning
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is essential for top-down control of affect and its dysfunction is implicated in many psychiatric disorders. Inhibitory interneurons expressing somatostatin have been impli...
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Integrating reproductive states and social cues in the control of sociosexual behaviors in PFC: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Integrating reproductive states and social cues in the control of sociosexual behaviors
A subset of neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex is shown to exert top-down regulation of adaptive innate reproductive behaviors by integrating social cues with estrous states to orchestrate socios...
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HIRING! Are you looking for a PhD fellowship? Come join our group geco.iit.it Opening position starting from November 2025, official call coming out soon. Write me if interested francesco.papaleo@iit.it
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Norepinephrine signals through astrocytes to modulate synapses | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Norepinephrine signals through astrocytes to modulate synapses
Locus ceruleus (LC)–derived norepinephrine (NE) drives network and behavioral adaptations to environmental saliencies by reconfiguring circuit functional connectivity, but the underlying synapse-level...
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 Interesting review on spontaneous activity and predictions. Idea of "predictions" is natural enough (how could it be otherwise?) but the emphasis on constructing models of the world is not persuasive. And the Bayesian motivation is way too vague imo. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
Our latest superb starling work in @nature.com. We observe long-term reciprocal helping relationships, and suggest reciprocity is an underappreciated mechanism promoting the stability of cooperatively breeding societies. Led by Alexis Earl and @gerrycarter.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A cryptic role for reciprocal helping in a cooperatively breeding bird - Nature
A study of the cooperative breeding behaviour of superb starlings during 40 consecutive breeding seasons over 20 years reveals long-term reciprocal helping between both related and unrelated individua...
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Multiple #funding opportunities are OPEN to support your #neuroscience journey! Whether you're aiming for PhD, conference travel, or research support - explore & apply 🔍 buff.ly/olJ2I0b #IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm #IBROinEurope @fens.org @wellcometrust.bsky.social
🚨 Come work with us! 3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty. More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2 Please share widely 🔁
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Nice chat about the Socio-Emotional Brain with Mark Mattson. Check our conversation on his podcast: the Brain Ponderings: Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/39HsoeK... YouTube: www.youtube.com/@brainponder...
BRAIN PONDERINGS podcast with Dr. Mark Mattson
Neuroscientist Mark Mattson in conversations with other scientists at the forefront of brain research. Here are a few of the major questions that BRAIN PONDERINGS guests will tackle: How have brai...
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An amazing line up of speakers will explore the bidirectional crosstalk between the central nervous system and the body.
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📣 Registrations and abstract submissions for our international conference… | Bordeaux Neurocampus
📣 Registrations and abstract submissions for our international conference BrainBody have just opened! When? 1-3 October 2025 Where? Bordeaux, France Abstract submission and early bird registration de...
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