Submitted Jeffy's first first author paper 🤓🧠✍️💫 #neurosky

Now online! @lieberinstitute.bsky.social & @jhubiostat.bsky.social collaboration generating important resource (Visium & Xenium) on molecular organization of human hypothalamus w/ cool findings associating sex differential expression to neuropsychiatric disorders 🧠🔬🧪 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Spatially resolved molecular sex differences at single-cell resolution in the adult human ventromedial and arcuate hypothalamus

The ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) and arcuate (ARC) nuclei of the hypothalamus play critical roles in regulating metabolism and behavior. Here, Mulvey et al. create a focused spatial transcriptomic ...

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We could all use some extra stress #resilience rn. But how does it work in the brain? On the surface, resilience looks like ignoring stress. Does the brain fail to respond? Or are active adaptations required? Or are resilience and susceptibility divergent paths? doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116867

Happy to share the latest from our lab published @cp-cellreports.bsky.social, where we delineated the synaptic maturation trajectory for vCA1 and iCA1 projections to mPFC, and pathway-specific effects of vCA1- and iCA1-mPFC juvenile inhibition on cognitive flexibility www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Maturation of hippocampus-medial prefrontal cortex projections defines a pathway-specific sensitive period for cognitive flexibility

Cruz-Sanchez et al. show that the maturation trajectory of ventral and intermediate hippocampus-medial prefrontal cortex connectivity displays distinct anatomical and synaptic developmental signatures...

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I edited a special issue of Addiction Neuroscience on dopamine circuitry & heterogeneity in addiction - now complete!🧠🧪 Check out the full issue & my editorial (all open access) here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Hanging out with the 2026 Dolores Shockley Award winners: Drs. Carlos Bolaños and @jaredwyoung.bsky.social 🔥✨️ #ACNP2026

ACNP@acnporg.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📸 One last favor: Share your favorite photo from the meeting and tag us! We’d love to see #ACNP2026 through your eyes. Until next year... stay inspired!

Thrilled to share that I was promoted to Full Member! 🎉 🙌Grateful for the incredible mentorship, support, and community that made this milestone possible. Thanks to everyone who believed in me, including Tony Grace + @jaredwyoung.bsky.social for their letters, and to @acnporg.bsky.social 🙏 #ACNP2026

Congrats to the new @acnporg.bsky.social Fellows! #ACNP2026

Congrats to all of the new @acnporg.bsky.social Members!!! #ACNP2026

Congrats to all of the new @acnporg.bsky.social Associate Members!!! #ACNP2026

@madrelabutd.bsky.social owning the floor in this flamenco-adjacent ensemble💃🏻 If you’ve found her Experience and Resilience committee sessions rewarding, her lab can tell you what’s happening to your dopamine 💗🧠 #FashionsOfACNP #ACNP2026

Susanne Ahmari@ahmarilab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Next up in #FashionsOfACNP: Dr. Rene Hen sporting the perfect beach-to-bench outfit. Straight from the runways of Paris, equally comfortable whether you’re poolside or at a neurogenesis poster 🧠🇫🇷🥐 @acnporg.bsky.social

Grateful to everyone who joined us for last night's Experience and Resilience Reception @acnporg.bsky.social 🎉🔥💫 Honored to have served as Chair and close this chapter surrounded by such an amazing community🧡 Thank you to all E&R subcommittee chairs/ members for your efforts 🤗👏 Onwards! #acnp2026

Thank you to everyone that came out to our symposium earlier today @acnporg.bsky.social✨ Special shoutout to our panelists Victoria Arango, Dionna Williams, and David Jentsch for sharing your experiences overcoming distinct types of adversity. #ACNP2026

@madrelabutd.bsky.social presented her work using a rodent model of resource scarcity to investigate how postpartum adversity alters maternal behavior and mesolimbic dopamine function.

Congratulations to Nancy Padilla-Coreano, Ph.D. a new Associate Member of ACNP! Welcome!! 👋

Congratulations to Freddyson Martinez-Rivera, Ph.D. a new Associate Member of ACNP! Welcome!! 👋 @freddysonj.bsky.social

Submitting a grant at this particular moment feels a bit like tossing a rock into the abyss, but hey, at least I am no longer carrying the rock.

Honored by this spotlight 😊 Grew up in the ACNP: from baby PD 👶, to early career faculty member chairing the Experience and Resilience Committee💪🇵🇷 Grateful for a community that develops careers alongside science🧠 Looking forward to seeing all y'all at the E&R events in the Bahamas! 🌴☀️🌊🇧🇸

ACNP@acnporg.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This year marks 10 years since Dr. Millie Rincón-Cortés first joined ACNP as a postdoctoral trainee. Over the past decade, she has contributed significantly through her service and leadership. 👏 Click here to learn more about her impact: tinyurl.com/ys92eamk

Excited to share our latest paper - now out in @science.org - we showed how oxytocin modulates maternally-directed behavior in young mice (P15).

Pleased to share our lab's latest research article led by Melissa Salazar, a new PhD student in my lab🤓🐀. We followed up on Oak 2024 and found sex-specific effects of early life scarcity-adversity on adolescent behavioral responses to natural rewards (sucrose- f, play-m). #SABV t.co/biPSE9u9Le

Finding out that your paper is accepted while you are enjoying one your favorite cities during a pre-conference vacay is a top tier experience 🎉🧠🔥

How do animals decide if they should forage for food or stay home to take care of newborn offspring? Whose needs come first? For my PhD work now out in Nature, we examined how hunger and parenting neurons interact and are reshaped postpartum in mice 🧵⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A hypothalamic circuit that modulates feeding and parenting behaviours - Nature

Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of mouse hypothalamus and behavioural experiments show that specific hypothalamic networks regulate conflicting feeding versus parenting behaviours of female mice.

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✨EXCITING NEWS!✨We're hosting our first ever, in-person event! Join us immediately before #SFN for a keynote, panel discussions, networking & more! Interested in attending? Fill out the form below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Nov 15 | 9am-1pm | Tata Hall at UCSD Help us spread the word!

📣 Thrilled to announce I'll be guest editing my 1st special issue! 🧠🎉 "Early Life Influences on Addiction" Seeking original research, reviews & perspectives. Spread the word 🗣️ 📅 October 1, 2025 🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/yc23kere 💬 DM me/reply to learn more- I'd love to hear from you! #Neuroskyence

Calling all early-career researchers! @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @neuromatch.bsky.social want to understand your journey as you become the next generation of neuroscientists. Share your experiences and help us build the resources you need. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

What kinds of support do early-career researchers need?

Help The Transmitter and Neuromatch bolster the next generation of neuroscientists.

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Neurobiology of resilience to early life stress www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neurobiology of resilience to early life stress - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - Neurobiology of resilience to early life stress

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Very nice and detailed review in @npp-journal.bsky.social on "Prefrontal cortex development and its implications in mental illness" from Laura DeNardo and colleagues. rdcu.be/euCIP

Prefrontal cortex development and its implications in mental illness

Neuropsychopharmacology - Prefrontal cortex development and its implications in mental illness

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Nicotine doesn’t just “turn on” the brain’s reward circuits — it reshapes them. Our new paper in Nature Communications shows that activating reward-linked dopamine neurons also sets off a feedback loop that drives negative emotional states. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nicotine engages a VTA-NAc feedback loop to inhibit amygdala-projecting dopamine neurons and induce anxiety-like behaviors - Nature Communications

Drugs of abuse exert both motivational and emotional effects. Here, the authors show that nicotine and ethanol activate a VTA–NAc loop that inhibits dopamine neurons projecting to the amygdala, thereb...

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Excellent opportunity that is closing soon ⏱️❗ Come join us in the beautiful Bahamas! 🌴🐠🌊☀️

ACNP@acnporg.bsky.social · last yr.

The ACNP Global Scholarship Application link is OPEN! The ACNP 64th Annual Meeting is January 12-15, 2026, in Nassau, Bahamas. The deadline to apply is August 15, 2025, at 5:00pm Central. Don’t miss out! #ACNP2026 Click here for more info: tinyurl.com/j8a9zybu

Finally made the jump to BlueSky 🦋👋 (only took me 2 years! 😅). Still figuring out how this works. Help a neuroscientist find her tribe? 🧠✨ #academicsky #neuroscience #womeninstem