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Koya Lab

@koyalab.bsky.social
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We aim to reveal the neuronal ensemble mechanisms of motivated behaviours guided by food-associated cues. We are located in weird and wonderful Brighton on the southern English coast! (lab homepage: tinyurl.com/y44g9a7u)

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Easy Electrophysiology @easyelectrophys.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Take a look at some of Easy Electrophysiology’s capabilities in our new online manual! We’ve recently moved the manual from PDF to a webpage, making it much easier to navigate. You can find it here: easy-electrophysiology.github.io/manual/
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
@braininspired.bsky.social talks with @romainbrette.bsky.social about his new book, “The Brain, In Theory,” which offers alternatives to many of the computer science frameworks currently driving theoretical neuroscience. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...
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Romain Brette reveals fundamental flaws in commonly assumed neuroscience concepts
His new book, “The Brain, In Theory,” offers alternatives to many of the computer science frameworks currently driving theoretical neuroscience.
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
At University of Bristol today to conduct a MSc and PhD viva (on the same day). It's been a nice week of academic tourism! 😄
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
At the University of Edinburgh today !
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Happiness = haggis bonbons and whisky in Edinburgh 😋
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Edinburgh at night
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
An afternoon stroll in Edinburgh !
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Our article “Environmental Enrichment Suppresses Food Seeking and Increases Inhibitory Interneuron Excitability While Decreasing Corticothalamic Neuronal Recruitment in the Prelimbic Cortex” is now out on @ejneuroscience.bsky.social Read it here: tinyurl.com/2dbnk5c2 Highlights below 👇 1/n
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Cool new study on how operant training and extinction learning recruit distinct prelimbic cortex ensembles to support opposing behavioural responses from Bruce Hope's lab! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Distinct prelimbic cortex ensembles encode response execution and inhibition | PNAS
Learning when to initiate or withhold actions is essential for survival, requiring the integration of past experiences with new information to adap...
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I recently learned that my PhD mentor, Pieter Voorn, passed away at the age of 70. He was a superb, ‘classical’ neuroanatomist at VU Medical Center in Amsterdam, working alongside Gloria Meredith, Henk Groenewegen, Harry Uylings, and Chris Wright.
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Flight back has been cancelled so must spend another day in Almeria! Not a bad place to get stranded ! 😁
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Seen today in Brighton: Old-school, non-LLM, analogue spell checking! 😄
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Marcello Solinas @msolinas.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
We are hiring! www.fens.org/careers/job-...
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Post-doc position in the « Neurobiology and Neuropharmacology of Psychiatric Disorders » team, INSERM-University of Poitiers - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
In this recent #ResearchHighlight, the authors discuss new findings pointing a potential non-pharmacological approach for mitigating maladaptive craving behaviors
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To indulge or enrich: how environmental enrichment affects neurons that promote food seeking
Neuropsychopharmacology - To indulge or enrich: how environmental enrichment affects neurons that promote food seeking
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Seen today in Brighton: A tribute to Pac-man on wheels! 😄
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The Shoya House at The Huntington, San Marino, CA. A house built in the Edo period 300 years ago in Marugame Japan. It was disassembled there and reassembled at The Huntington. Amazing !
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Friday happiness=yakitori and Suntory Premium Malts at Torikizoku! 😋
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Our article “Prelimbic cortical excitatory overdrive and inhibitory underdrive accompany environmental suppression of food seeking” recently came out on @‪npp-journal.bsky.social‬. tinyurl.com/5xpd9ay5 Want to learn more? The thread is below: 1/n‬‬‬
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Nice views of Arundel this afternoon!
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Many years ago I found this book at a used bookstore in Brighton by Louis-Antoine Ranvier dated 1889. Although I don't understand any French, it was still cool to see drawings of microscopes that were used back then! (Not sure it this is the microscope he used to discover those famous 'nodes')
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Seen on the Sussex campus! The answer to the question is 'yes'! 😄
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
A nice view of Blakers Park this evening with the English Channel in the distance!
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The warm and sunny spring days are here at Preston Park! 😎
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
D-PSCAN: Using a double-prism for in vivo brainstem imaging. Very cool! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Minimally invasive, wide-field two-photon imaging of the brainstem at cellular resolution
Brain-viscera communication is crucial for regulating mental health, with the nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) as an important hub region for this interaction. Agetsuma et al. develop an in vivo deep-b...
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Koya Lab @koyalab.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I finally started an account here! 😀 I'll start on a sunny note with some spring time shots of Falmer Village!
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