Sanja Mikulovic

@smikulovic.bsky.social

Neuroscientist interested in the interaction between cognition and emotion in prosocial behavior, Ass. Prof. @meduniwien.ac.at, Center for Brain Research, @jungeakademie.bsky.social

The window to submit abstracts for WCP 26 is closing soon - just 1 month left! This is your opportunity to present your work to a global psychiatric audience, engage with peers, and contribute to key discussions shaping the field. 👉 Submit your abstract by 23 March 2026: bit.ly/3JVlxd7

Abstract Guidelines & Submission | WCP 2026

Abstract Guidelines & Submission for the 26th World Congress of Psychiatry , taking place in Stockholm, Sweden, from 23-26 September.

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If you’re at #FENS in Barcelona and interested in social neuroscience, we’d love to meet you — join us at our event!

Steve W. C. Chang@stevewcchang.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Together with the European Social Club, the Society for Social Neuroscience is organizing a "Social brain networking event" during FENS forum fensforum.org, in Barcelona, Spain. It will be held at La Fuga, Consell de Cent 350, on the 7th of July from 7 pm. @s4sn.bsky.social

A half-century old question may have its final answer. Using high-resolution #Mini2P microscopes, we find no evidence of local topography in #PlaceCells. Place fields of neighbouring cells are no more similar than those of randomly selected cells. 🧠🗺️ Out now in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Place cells in CA1 lack topographical organization of firing locations | PNAS

Topography is a well-described and well-known concept for cortical organization in primary sensory and motor cortices of mammalian brains. Similar ...

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In line with many good news these days 🌟 I’m happy to share that I’ve accepted the professorship in Neuronal Circuits for Social Behaviour and Learning at @meduniwien.ac.at! 🎉

MedUni Wien@meduniwien.ac.at · 6mo ago

Wie entsteht #Empathie im #Gehirn – und warum ist sie bei manchen Menschen gestört? 🧠 Sanja Bauer Mikulovic übernimmt eine Tenure-Track-Assistenzprofessur an der #MedUniWien & führt ihr vom @erc.europa.eu​ mit einem #StartingGrant gefördertes Projekt fort. ⬇️

New preprint from the lab! 🚀 We find that hippocampal OLM interneurons provide a circuit-level inhibitory feedback signal that dynamically controls when and where behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity can occur. Feedback welcome!

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Dendrite-targeting OLM interneurons regulate the formation of learning-related CA1 place cell representations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.21.695825v1

New study on axon initial segment plasticity by Chloé Benoit and Dan Ganea. Using a deep brain imaging approach, we find that AIS length changes dynamically during associative learning. Thank you to the wonderful team and collaborators who made this work possible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Axon initial segment dynamics during associative fear learning - Nature Neuroscience

Benoit, Ganea et al. show that changes in axon initial segment (AIS) length in the prefrontal cortex of mice accompany fear learning and extinction, revealing AIS plasticity as a key feature of neuron...

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Congrats to Ella for her new paper! She asked a really interesting question about how the brain represents uncertainty during hidden state inference, and in a lovely crossover with theoretical work, she shows that in mice, acetylcholine dynamics play a crucial role. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Acetylcholine reflects uncertainty during hidden state inference

To act adaptively, animals must infer features of the environment that cannot be observed directly, such as which option is currently rewarding, or which context they are in. These internal estimates,...

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Out now: Favila, Capece Marsico et al. 2025, Nature Communications: Using longitudinal deep-brain imaging, we report that amygdala interneurons exhibit complex and heterogeneous plasticity during associative learning, at both the single-cell and population level. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heterogeneous plasticity of amygdala interneurons in associative learning and extinction - Nature Communications

In this study, the authors uncover how diverse inhibitory interneurons in the amygdala flexibly contribute to fear and safety learning, revealing a key role for inhibition in emotional memory and adap...

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Heute Abend diskutieren wir im #Futurium Berlin über die Zukunft der Wissenschafskommunikation - mit Utopiemobil!

Die Junge Akademie@jungeakademie.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Im November macht das #Utopiemobil erneut Halt im #Futurium in #Berlin. Am 13.11. geht es im Rahmen eines 🌟Open Lab Abends🌟ab 17 Uhr um die Zukunft der #Wissenschaftskommunikation. U.a. mit @leoniewenz.bsky.social und @libuchauer.bsky.social Alle Infos:🔗 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/veranstal...

Foto: Die Junge Akademie/Bernd Brundert
Vier Fotos eines modularen Außenpavillons. Oben links: Innenraum aus beigem Holz mit zwei runden Fenstern, einem rosa Sitzkissen, freiliegenden Drähten und metallischen Luftschlangen. Oben rechts: eine durchsichtige Kuppel auf einem rosafarbenen runden Sockel. Unten links: silberne und rosafarbene geschwungene Außenansicht auf Kies unter Bäumen, ein Ende offen mit einem kurzen Vorhang. Unten rechts: Innenansicht mit einem runden Fenster, einer rosa Tafel mit Text und Luftschlangen.