Neuroscientist. Decision-making, affective disorders, electrophysiology. 🔬🧬🧠

St Louis, MO
Joined June 2016
Aleesha, a friend and a colleague, could not do a better work in capturing our findings. So proud of her work ❤️ this is her website: aleeshashi.com She is launching her career as digital illustrator! Please check her remarkable portfolio 🤗
Very proud to see this beautiful artwork, highlighting @FedeLucantonio's paper, made by our talented former lab member @qwinkledink on the cover of @NeuroCellPress ! 🤩 Aleesha is now launching her career as a digital illustrator aleeshashi.com/ please, check her work!
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Feeling unmotivated isn’t just “part of it.” WashU Medicine researchers found how cancer-related inflammation affects the brain—and reversed it in mice, showing apathy can be treated separately from disease. Big news for palliative care: medicine.washu.edu/news/brai…
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A neuroimmune circuit mediates cancer cachexia-associated apathy ❤️👇🏻
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Online now: Ketamine rescues anhedonia by cell-type- and input-specific adaptations in the nucleus accumbens dlvr.it/TJdRGT
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I am very proud to share our new work from the lab 😊 please check it out 👇🏻
Please, see our new lab work published in @NeuroCellPress ! 👉Ketamine rescues anhedonia by cell-type- and input-specific adaptations in the nucleus accumbens. sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Thanks to @BBRFoundation and @NIMHgov for funding this study. 🙏
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Super excited to share what we found about the role of ketamine in rescuing anhedonia by cell-type and input specific adaptations in the Nucleus Accumbens! 😊
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PRINT GIVEAWAY, a 16" X 24" print of Molecules to Neurons! bit.ly/3ltvB0s TO ENTER:⁠ 1) Like & retweet 2) tag friends, colleagues, etc. that would like this print! 3) Follow @gdunnart winner chosen Feb 24 #spinalcord #sfn22 #sfn2022 #neuron #sciart #neuroscience
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We have a new opening for a postdoc. This is an NIH funded position (RO1) for up to 5 years 🍾🥳. We offer exciting projects on ketamine-mediated amelioration of stress-induced anhedonia, a collaborative, team-based approach, and an inclusive training environment-Please retweet
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It is time to expand the family! We are hiring a lab tech. Come work with us using in vitro and in vivo electrophysiology to better understand stress-induced negative affect and the action of rapid-acting antidepressants. jobs.wustl.edu (search 49917)
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Great list of speakers for a very important cause 😊 please spread the word and sign up! 🔬
We are organising an online one-day neuroscience symposium in support of Kosovo's COVID-19 relief programmes! Our speakers: @MatteoCarandini @kishoreneuro @SaraASolla @Neurrriot @TrackingActions @TurrigianoLab @kennethd_harris and Robert Froemke xhmfoundation.com/neuro
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Happy to share our latest work from @JeremiahYCohen‘s lab 😊 a big thank to the whole lab! 🔬
Punishment history biases corticothalamic responses to motivationally-significant stimuli biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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Check out my and ⁦⁦@NeuroTejeda⁩‘s new paper “Cooperative synaptic and intrinsic plasticity in a disynaptic limbic circuit drive stress-induced anhedonia and passive coping in mice” online in ⁦@MolPsychiatry⁩ today ! nature.com/articles/s41380-0…
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Thorase variants are associated with defects in glutamatergic neurotransmission stm.sciencemag.org/content/9… – at Baltimore, MD
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Please RT ! nature.com/neuro/journal/vao… – at Baltimore, MD