Reposted by Laura M Bevilacqua
Super excited to share this new paper led by @sejpaton.bsky.social that I briefly mentioned at #ACNP2026 yesterday! 🧪🧠🤓
We tested preventive strategies to protect the brain vasculature #BBB during stress exposure, mix of mouse 🐭 and human data
So proud of my team 🤘
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Environmental enrichment and physical exercise prevent stress-induced social avoidance and blood-brain barrier alterations via Fgf2 - Nature Communications
Chronic stress disrupts the brain vasculature and contributes to mood disorders, but mechanisms of resilience remain unclear. Here, the authors show that enriched environments increase astrocytic Fgf2...