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Timmy Lê, Ph.D.

@timmyle.bsky.social

•Postdoc in the Logan Lab @umasschan •Neuroscientist with cerebral palsy born to Vietnamese refugees •Interested in stress and addiction •UMass Chan trained neuroscientist/electrophysiologist 🧪🧠

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UMass Chan Medical School@umasschan.bsky.social · last wk.

Read about the high school and undergraduate students who spent part of their summer at UMass Chan Medical School in highly sought-after programs: https://direc.to/pb7d #HealthCareers #HealthcareCareers #FutureDoctors #SummerResearch #StudentResearch #UndergraduateResearch @umassdiabetes.bsky.social

UMass Chan summer outreach programs inspire next generation of physician-scientists

Classrooms and labs kept busy this summer at UMass Chan, hosting high school and college students participating in outreach programs.

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Black In Neuro@blackinneuro.bsky.social · 2w ago

📣 It's Roll Call time! Kick off #BINW26 by introducing yourself! Share a selfie or short video telling us who you are, what you do, and the future you're helping reimagine. 🧠 Tag us and use #BINRollCall so we can celebrate our amazing community! Tag 3 BIN members you'd like to see join Roll Call ✨

Promotional graphic for #BINRollCall during Black In Neuro Week 2026. The design features a blue sunburst background with an arch-shaped cream panel. At the top, a blue banner reads "Mon 27 July, 2026." The center text says: "Kick off #BINW26 by introducing yourself! Share a selfie or short video telling us who you are, what you do, and what future you're helping reimagine." The Black In Neuro logo appears in the bottom left corner, and #BINW26 is displayed in a banner at the bottom.
UMass Chan Medical School@umasschan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

UMass Chan Medical School research indicates that brain activity could predict which individuals with alcohol use disorder are more susceptible to problematic drinking and relapse than others: direc.to/oCQq #AlcoholResearch @dgordonwinder.bsky.social @mariedoyle.bsky.social

UMass Chan study finds brain activity could predict problematic drinking, relapse vulnerability in alcohol use disorder

The study could start to answer why individuals displaying certain problematic drinking patterns may be more susceptible to relapse than others.

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Noah Emery, PhD@noahemery.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨 New episode alert 🚨 The Addiction Psychologist just dropped a new episode on GLP-1s. In it, Dr. Joseph Schacht discusses what these compounds are, how they work, their potential to treat substance use disorders, and the current state of the science. Really insightful and balanced conversation.

Dr. Joseph Schacht - Can We Leverage GLP-1s for Substance Use Disorder? by The Addiction Psychologist

GLP-1s have rapidly increased in popularity, Due to their seemingly remarkable ability to facilitate weight loss. These findings have led to increased interest in understanding whether GLP-1s might be...

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UMass Chan Medical School@umasschan.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, PhD, and Travis E. Faust, PhD, in Cell explains how cell types in the brain communicate in response to changes in sensory input to remodel synapses: direc.to/nJHH Alzheimer’s and ALS patients have synaptic damage. @travisfaust.bsky.social @cp-cell.bsky.social

UMass Chan scientists show how the non-neuronal brain cells communicate to coordinate rewiring of brain

A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, PhD, and Travis E. Faust, PhD, explains how two different cell types in the brain communicate in response to changes in sensory input.

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Tara Delorme@taracdelorme.bsky.social · 10mo ago

How do opioids disrupt the brain’s internal clock, and how does this differ between sexes? Our new study uses RNAseq to examine the suprachiasmatic nucleus across different opioid exposure states in genetically diverse rats. ✨https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772392525000458

Jessica Price@delafina777.bsky.social · 12mo ago

so, to understand this story there are a few things you need to know - my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal - he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not) - he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog - he is not a dog - I do not get seizures

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Timmy Lê, Ph.D.@timmyle.bsky.social · last yr.

What really blows my mind right now is that human civilization has been consuming alcohol since 7000 BC, but alcohol research in CNS has only been relatively recent. Early evidence in the literature…1948 AD (to be clear). That’s definitely a huge gap. Earliest study examining sex differences? 1989

Timmy Lê, Ph.D.@timmyle.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 I am pleased to share w/ everyone a new Nature #Neuroscience paper led by Dr. Pablo Gimenez-Gomez from the lab of Dr. Gilles Martin @umasschan.bsky.social In this paper, we found a specific #alcohol activated neuronal ensemble that functions to suppress binge drinking behavior. #AlcoholResearch

Suppression of binge alcohol drinking by an inhibitory neuronal ensemble in the mouse medial orbitofrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience

This study demonstrates that high alcohol concentrations during binge drinking activate a small GABAergic neuronal ensemble in the medial orbitofrontal cortex, which subsequently reduces further alcoh...

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