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Mathias V. Schmidt

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Unraveling the molecular basis of stress resilience | Group leader at MPI of Psychiatry | Secretary General Elect of FENS | Editor-in-Chief Neurobiology of Stress

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Alessandro Bartolomucci Lab @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ALERT: Special Editorial focus issue on "Stress-induced impaired health and accelerated aging" Hosted by "Neurobiology of Stress" and "Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews" co-edited with @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social Details here: z.umn.edu/bkxb
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Launch of our brand-new website for 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐎𝐅! 🚀 👉 Explore: deepof.ai
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DeepOF � Supervised and Unsupervised Behavioral Analysis
DeepOF: An open-source Python library for mouse behavioral analysis.
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Stress and resilience researchers - check out this fantastic satellite event just before the start of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Meeting in Munich. We have a fantastic lineup of speakers. Registration (free) is now open: lnkd.in/gMsV4Ygc
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Stress and resilience researchers - check out this fantastic satellite event just before the start of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Meeting in Munich. We have a fantastic lineup of speakers. Registration (free) is now open: lnkd.in/gMsV4Ygc
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Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry @mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Am 5. Mai gibt uns Biologe und Forschungsgruppenleiter @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social einen Einblick in seine Forschung zum Thema Stress. Die Veranstaltung ist für alle offen, eine Anmeldung ist nicht nötig! Mehr Infos findet ihr hier: www.psych.mpg.de/mindmatters #biologie #stress #vortrag
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Alessandro Bartolomucci Lab @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We are really thrilled to host this joint open special issue with among the two journals @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social We are very interested to receive your best research at the intersection between stress, health and aging. Details here lnkd.in/dGfV24ex and in the linkedin post z.umn.edu/b971
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𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬: 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 I am thrilled to announce a unique editorial collaboration between 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐨𝐟… | PD Dr. Mathias V. Schmidt
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬: 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 I am thrilled to announce a unique editorial collaboration between 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 and 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬. Together ...
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 I am thrilled to announce an editorial collaboration between 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 and 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬. With @bartolomuccilab.bsky.social, I am co-editing a virtual special issue focused on: 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴-𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I am delighted to share our editorial for Neurobiology of Stress, co-authored with my fellow Editor-in-Chief, Lawrence Reagan doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I’m thrilled to share our latest preprint from the lab, now available on BioRxiv! We investigated how early life adversity (ELA) shapes the adult brain, and the results are a stark reminder that sex isn't just a variable but leads to fundamentally different stress-induced mechanistic consequences
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
To truly understand the neurobiological basis of complex behaviors - the real 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 - we must overcome the limitations of traditional, short-term behavioral tests.
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Interesting talk by @kgoepfrich.bsky.social on RNA design and synthetic cells.
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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS @fens.org · 16/10/2025
🚨Open position at #FENS! 💭Do you want to help strengthen the voice of #neuroscience? Apply for the Advocacy and Engagement Internship at FENS! 🗓️ The deadline for applications is 31 October! 👉 loom.ly/2Qy18y8
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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Very happy to share our new paper in Biological Psychiatry, showing that Urolithin A reverses high anxiety by repairing mitochondrial function in the nucleus accumbens. Big kudos to first co-authors David Mallet & Doğukan Ülgen, our amazing team, and collaborators! 🔗 Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
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Natalie Matosin @nataliematosin.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Latest lab preprint! Astrocytes are a brain cell type vulnerable to the effects of stress and the development of psychiatric-like phenotypes in animals, yet how this translates to humans is unclear... so we dived in: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Astrocytic glutamate regulation is shaped by adversity and glucocorticoid signalling
Astrocytes are a brain cell type vulnerable to the effects of stress and the development of psychiatric-like phenotypes in animals, yet how this translates to humans is unclear. Here, we probed the di...
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Important initiative 👇
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Ready for some really hot 🔥🥵 data on stress and trauma effects across the life span, join us at the 17:30 symposium @ebbsociety.bsky.social with @biancasilvalab.bsky.social.
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ebbsociety.bsky.social @ebbsociety.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The heat won’t stop the energy — science (and fans!) in full swing! 🔆🪭💪 #EBBS2025
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
In Bordeaux for the #EBBS meeting. Looking forward to 4 exciting days of science
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Natalie Matosin @nataliematosin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 Thrilled to share our latest work in "The Neurobiology of Stress" where we highlight the intricate roles of neuropeptides and neurosteroids in psychiatric disorders, & how new technologies can answer old questions about these important signallers. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Expanding our understanding of (mal)adapted stress physiology in psychiatric disorders: achieving single-cell characterisation of steroids and neuropeptides
Steroid hormones and neurosteroids (collectively neuroactive steroids), alongside neuropeptides, are key modulators of the central nervous system. The…
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EARA @eara.eu · 03/06/2025
The Be Open about Animal Research Day is starting now! Show your support and share on #BOARD25
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Oliver Bosch @olibosch.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
🎉It's happening - The Neurobiology of Grief International Network (NOGIN) comes to Europe! We are happy to host NOGIN from Sept 17-19 in Regensburg/DE. Registration is already open, seats are strictly limited to 100 participants. More information here: www.neurobiologyofgrief.org/events
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Events — Neurobiology of Grief International Network
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Excellent review by @talliezee.bsky.social and Matthew T. Birnie on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the consequences of early life adversity. Highly recommended! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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The evolving neurobiology of early-life stress
This review explores the effects of early-life stress on brain development and cognitive function, highlighting gaps in understanding perceived stress, vulnerable developmental stages, underlying mole...
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Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Childhood adversity as a risk factor for autoimmune disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis with implications for psychiatry www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Childhood adversity as a risk factor for autoimmune disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis with implications for psychiatry
Autoimmune diseases are a heterogeneous category of disorders caused by an interaction between genetic and environmental factors which lead to a dysre…
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Read about our recent discoveries on mechanisms that can drive resilience in females. www.psych.mpg.de/2949097/news...
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Early Life Stress Can Build Resilience in Females
Stress in early life can improve emotional regulation and cognitive function in female mice. This is a significant departure from the traditional view that such stress is solely detrimental. The study...
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Camilla Bellone @bellonec.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize honors groundbreaking work that bridges molecular & systems neuroscience to advance our understanding of cognition, emotion, memory, & decision-making. 🔬 Celebrate bold science. Nominate now. #Neuroscience #BrainResearch www.sfn.org/careers/awar...
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Peter Seeburg Integrative Neuroscience Prize
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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Intergenerational Effects of Stress - A Focus on Learning and Memory doi.org/10.1007/7854...
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Intergenerational Effects of Stress – A Focus on Learning and Memory
Stress is a ubiquitous facet of life. Ranging in form (e.g., psychosocial, physical, nutritional, economic) and longevity (e.g., acute, chronic), stressors affect the biology of those directly in thei...
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Brian Trainor @briantrainor.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
We're using a lab TikTok account to try and get the message out about why science is important. The latest post from @neurani.bsky.social and @g-lia-lcells.bsky.social with footage from Hunter Sowards lab visit www.tiktok.com/t/ZP82fpRCA/
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lab but aesthetic 🤩 comment how a typical day looks for you #sza #dayinlife #interviews #science #lablife #labtech #behindthescene
TikTok video by trainor lab
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New paper: We show that especially female mice benefit from moderate early life adversity under stressful situations in adulthood. This pro-resilient effect requires the psychiatric risk factor FKBP51, which turns out to be also required for adaptive stress responses. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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FKBP51 in glutamatergic forebrain neurons promotes early life stress inoculation in female mice - Nature Communications
Early life stress can induce lasting changes in brain function and behavior. Here, authors show that glutamatergic FKBP51 specifically in females mediates adaptive stress effects on anxiety and cognit...
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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Maternal behavior promotes resilience to adolescent stress in mice through a microglia-neuron axis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Maternal behavior promotes resilience to adolescent stress in mice through a microglia-neuron axis - Nature Communications
Early life experience modulates stress resilience in later life. Here the authors show that maternal care triggers microglia-derived IGF-1 levels, which suppresses the neuronal C/EBPβ-DRP1 axis, promo...
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Leander @le-and-er.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🚨🧠 New paper alert: Stress alters neuronal balance in the developing brain 🧠🚨 Our latest study in @science.orgAdvances explores how glucocorticoid exposure—a key environmental risk factor—shapes early human brain development using #organoids. @mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social @drcricru.bsky.social 🧵👇
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Chronic exposure to glucocorticoids amplifies inhibitory neuron cell fate during human neurodevelopment in organoids
Chronic exposure to glucocorticoids during brain development leads to priming of the inhibitory neuron lineages in organoids.
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Very interesting paper on social behavior analysis 👇🏻
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
European Neuroscience Societies stand up for science to support our U.S. colleagues 💪🏻
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KalischLab @kalischlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
A new initiative to connect #stress and #resilience researchers around the world. A global platform, needed more than ever in these times: gsr-net.org @gsrnet.bsky.social Resources to learn, teach, find labs, methods, conferences, workshops, jobs. Benefits for early-career researchers. 1/3
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GSRNet - Empowering collaboration and knowledge sharing
The Global Stress & Resilience Network (GSRNet) is a global community connecting stress and resilience researchers and national networks.
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Kate Wassum @katewassum.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨 Out today, @jackiegio.bsky.social discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv
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A dual-pathway architecture for stress to disrupt agency and promote habit - Nature
Adaptive decision-making often requires an understanding of our agency in a situation; however, chronic stress can disrupt agency and promote inflexible, habitual behaviour by turning off a brain path...
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Surfin' NuRD @surfinnurd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Remember, EuropePMC is actually better than #PubMed because it includes ALL preprints in search results, not just those including NIH-funded research. europepmc.org
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Europe PMCHome - Europe PMC
Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The systematic undermining of science by the US administration is absolutely horrifying. The global science community needs to stand up for science and support our US colleagues in this time of crisis.
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Caroline Menard @caromenard666.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
So excited to share the work of the fantastic Katarzyna, 1st 🧪PhD student of my lab 🧠, out in @natureneuro.bsky.social 🥂🥳 Cheers to the team, thanks to our precious collaborators and support from @braincanada.bsky.social #CIHR @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social #newPI www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Astrocytic cannabinoid receptor 1 promotes resilience by dampening stress-induced blood–brain barrier alterations - Nature Neuroscience
The mechanisms of neurovascular adaptations underlying stress resilience remain unclear. Here the authors show that the astrocytic endocannabinoid system modulates the blood–brain barrier changes duri...
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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Reviving-like prosocial behavior in response to unconscious or dead conspecifics in rodents www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Reviving-like prosocial behavior in response to unconscious or dead conspecifics in rodents
Whereas humans exhibit emergency responses to assist unconscious individuals, how nonhuman animals react to unresponsive conspecifics is less well understood. We report that mice exhibit stereotypic b...
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Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry @mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🧠Using #organoids, @le-and-er.bsky.social and his colleagues found that #glucocorticoids, often prescribed before premature delivery, alter the neuronal balance in the developing brain. 🥳 Check out his summary below! 🧪 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
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Steve Maren @stevemaren.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Really awesome work here 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Mathias V. Schmidt @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Welcome @mpi-psychiatry.bsky.social to Bluesky. Follow for all news around psychiatric disorders, stress and more. 🧠🧪
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Daniel Drucker @danieljdrucker.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
It turns out that the environment & exposone and how you live as well as #genetics influence health #lifespan and #Aging #genetics @naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Integrating the environmental and genetic architectures of aging and mortality - Nature Medicine
Based on a systematic analysis of environmental exposures associated with aging and mortality in the UK Biobank, the relative contributions of such exposures and genetic risk for mortality and a range...
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Johannes Bohacek @bohaceklab.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Check out this cool study by the @markcembrowski.bsky.social lab! They describe a new hippocampus cell population that responds to novel stimuli. But hold on to your seat: they don't if the object is presented again. Even 100 days later! When the behavioral memory has long faded!! 🤯🤯😱🤩
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Scott Russo @scottrussophd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
1/4 I am very pleased to share this new manuscript, “A crucial role for the cortical amygdala in shaping social encounters”, led by 2 spectacular postdocs, Dr. Tony Aubry who is on the job market, and coauthor @neuromanonyc.bsky.social Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A crucial role for the cortical amygdala in shaping social encounters - Nature
The posterolateral cortical amygdala and other connected brain regions have a key role in mediating the transition from investigative to aggressive behaviour in male mice.
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Marija Kundakovic @kundakoviclab.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Excited to share Laila’s @lailaouldibbat.bsky.social first first-author paper & the very first “metabolic” paper from the lab just published @ Hormones & Behavior: "The role of ovarian hormone dynamics in metabolic phenotype and gene expression in female mice" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The role of ovarian hormone dynamics in metabolic phenotype and gene expression in female mice
Ovarian hormones, particularly estradiol, play an important role in the regulation of metabolic function including in food intake, thermogenesis, acti…
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 11/02/2025
Despite advancements in markerless multi-animal pose #tracking tools, overcoming occlusion & crowding remains a challenge. This study develops a 2-step method, vmTracking, that enables accurate pose tracking of multiple animals in crowded environments🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4k4tFWa
Top left:  Schematic of virtual marker creation (upper panel). Six keypoints per mouse were tracked, with two designated as virtual markers. Examples (lower panel) using mice of markerless multi-animal pose tracking (left), virtual marker (middle), and virtual marker tracking (right) in an occlusion-crowded scene. Top right:  Extraction of tracking data for three human dancers from a scene where seven dancers perform similar movements over 2 seconds, displayed at 9 points every 4 frames. Bottom: Example photos from five scenes containing ten fish, and corresponding values for variance (σ2) and Cos sim. Red arrows in the photos indicate general movement direction of the school of fish.
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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Illuminating the impact of stress: in vivo approaches to track stress-related neural adaptations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Illuminating the impact of stress: in vivo approaches to track stress-related neural adaptations.
Stressful experiences can affect both daily life and long-term health outcomes in a variety of ways. Acute challenges may be adaptive, promoting arous…
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Tallie Z Baram @talliezee.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
There are (pico)tons of estrogen in MALE hippocampus! comparable to female levels. What does the female sex hormone do a in male memory hub? 🧪🧠A >2 yr effort to measure E2 by @neurohoke.bsky.social🙏 🙏 to @kiransoma.bsky.social. Stay tuned! #Neuroskyence #NeurobiologyofStress @thebalelab.bsky.social
human brain and an ocean seahorse on the left. violin plots of male and female mouse hippocampus on the right. surprisingly, they are similar
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Ciaran Murphy-Royal @murphyroyallab.org · 05/02/2025
Version of Record of our work at @elife.bsky.social has been published! Super proud of this one after all the hard work of the lab seeing it to the end. Make sure to click through figure supplements as there is so much good stuff in there - sex differences, etc. elifesciences.org/articles/99988
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Early-life stress induces persistent astrocyte dysfunction associated with fear generalisation
Amygdala astrocytes play a critical role in mediating the effects of stress during infancy on neuronal excitability, synaptic plasticity, and memory.
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