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Blake Kimmey

@bakspace.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Penn | Corder Lab Opioids and pain in the midbrain

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Nature @nature.com · 08/01/2026
Researchers identify the neurons involved in the emotional distress associated with pain go.nature.com/4qIKkB8
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Chronic pain could be eased by uncoupling the sensory and emotional experiences
Researchers identify the neurons involved in the emotional distress associated with pain, and design a genetic approach that could soothe suffering without opioid drugs.
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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🧠🐭💊 Check out our work on the role of Central Amygdala cell-types in opioid withdrawal ... Now published in Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social Open-access link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Central amygdalar PKCδ neurons mediate fentanyl withdrawal
Neuropsychopharmacology - Central amygdalar PKCδ neurons mediate fentanyl withdrawal
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 05/11/2025
More powerful tools for understanding the brain. 🧠🔍 Today, comprehensive, cross-species developing brain cell atlases were released to help advance health and disease research. 🧵 #studyBRAIN #BICAN
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Blake Kimmey @bakspace.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Huge thanks to the NYU PRC for the invitation to speak at PRIMED! Really enjoyed meeting everyone and hearing about the outstanding science happening there. Awesome community and event!
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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🧠💰K99/R00 NoA day! Huge congrats to Dr Blake Kimmey … #GameOn 🔥🍾🙌🏼 Gonna brag on this guy and say he’s on job market this year and he can bring this kinda cutting-edge placebo / pain / addiction systems-circuit neuro research to your department: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39803541/
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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
On behalf of my BSky-less student, Lisa Wooldridge: 🐭🧠💊⚡️ "Thrilled that my PhD work is on bioRxiv! I study how central amygdala (CeA) neurons contribute to opioid effects, but how specific CeA cell types drive this process remains unclear" 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sandra Poulson @sandrapoulson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Hey everybody, I want to share a few things about my recent #preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Take a break ☕ for some cool #neuroscience on #nocebo, #ACC, #PAG, and #CCK in mice to take your mind off of the goings on 👩‍🔬
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Talia Lerner @talialerner.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Me: trying to take my mind off the bad news The NY Times crossword: no (um *spoiler alert*) ....
Clue: funding sources for many labs 
Answer: federal grants
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⚡️GREG_CORDER⚡️ @flybottleescape.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
1/ 🧠 Excited to share our new preprint: Convergent state-control of endogenous opioid analgesia We uncover how cognitive + contextual factors—like injury, fear, and placebo—modulate pain through dynamic opioid signaling in the periaqueductal gray (PAG) biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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