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Esther Castillo-Gómez

@neuroesther.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist & Professor & Mum (not sure everything’s possible). PI at @NESTLab_UJI @REISestres #anatomy#medicine#stress#neuropeptides#plasticity#behavior

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Esther Castillo-Gómez @neuroesther.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
What makes alcohol trigger aggression? 🧠🍷 Our new paper is out! We uncover a brain mechanism: relaxin-3/RXFP3 signaling in the medial amygdala helps regulate this effect. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... Big kudos to all the team!! 🥳 NEST @uji.es @reistress.bsky.social #Neuroscience#Aggression#Alcohol
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Universitat Jaume I @uji.es · 29/10/2025
Concentració silenciosa en memòria de les víctimes i persones afectades per la DANA amb motiu del primer aniversari de la tragèdia.
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Fundación Universitat Jaume I-Empresa (FUE-UJI) @fueuji.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
So proud to organise this International Conference on the Impact of Environmental Pollutants on Mental and Neurological Health🤩This scientific meeting is being held at @uji.es from 29 to 31 October. 👍 www.fue.uji.es/psycomed @psycomedconference.bsky.social #somuji #fueuji #mentalhealth
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Fundación Universitat Jaume I-Empresa (FUE-UJI) @fueuji.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
▶️ Congresos y Jornadas Técnicas•Muy orgullosos de organizar este encuentro científico impulsado por el consorcio Psycomed. www.fue.uji.es/psycomed Mañana inauguramos en @uji.es 👏 29,30,31 de octubre: conferencia sobre el impacto de los contaminantes ambientales sobre la salud neurológica y mental
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John F. Cryan @jfcryan.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Huge congratulations to @carmensandi10.bsky.social on receiving the ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award from @ecnp.eu - So richly deserved
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Nature Nanotechnology @natnano.nature.com · 30/07/2025
News article @nature.com covering a recent study published @natnano.nature.com Cell's sugar coating mapped at below-nanometre resolution. "Super-resolution technique works with off-the-shelf optical microscopes." #Glycotime www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Cell's sugar coating mapped at below-nanometre resolution
Super-resolution technique works with off-the-shelf optical microscopes.
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Ann Kennedy @antihebbiann.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Proposal recommended for funding! Which means we have a fresh, 3-year-funded position available for a computational postdoc interested in studying dynamics of social interactions in rats, with simultaneous Neuropixels data to follow 🐀🐀🐀 Proper job ad pending, but email me if interested!
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Cristina Marquez @crismarquez.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🚨We will soon be offering #NewPositions for lab technicians, research assistants and postdocs, to join us in #Coimbra, Portugal If interested in investigating the neural circuits of #SocialCognition in rats, contact us! Details 👇🏾 dynabrain.cnc.uc.pt @caixaresearch.bsky.social @fct_pt
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Universitat Jaume I @uji.es · 25/02/2025
¿Sabías que el estrés sufrido durante la infancia y la adolescencia puede alterar nuestro comportamiento social para siempre? Personal investigador #CienciaUJI estudia las bases neuronales de esta asociación y analiza por qué algunas personas son más resilientes que otras. youtu.be/BUY_41WgRvk
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¿El estrés sufrido durante la infancia y adolescencia puede alterar nuestro comportamiento social?
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Andrea Martínez-Verdú @andreamarverdu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Echadle un vistazo 👇🏻👁️ a este video tan interesante 🧠🐭 de la mano de los investigadores @paco-olucha.bsky.social y @neuroesther.bsky.social. Fent #CiènciaUJI 👩🏼‍🔬
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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Automated detection of c-Fos-expressing neurons using inhomogeneous background subtraction in fluorescent images www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Automated detection of c-Fos-expressing neurons using inhomogeneous background subtraction in fluorescent images
Although many methods for automated fluorescent-labeled cell detection have been proposed, not all of them assume a highly inhomogeneous background ar…
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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
A neural basis for prosocial behavior toward unresponsive individuals www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A neural basis for prosocial behavior toward unresponsive individuals
Humans often take actions to assist others experiencing unresponsiveness, such as transient loss of consciousness. How other animals react to unresponsive conspecifics—and the neural mechanisms drivin...
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Tallie Z Baram @talliezee.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
So, stress amplifies our coping strategies: Colocalization of the 2 stress-sensitive peptides, CRH (green) and vasopressin (red), is augmented in adult hypothalamus after early-life stress #FluorescenceFriday 🧪🧠 #NeurobiologyofStress
a part of the brain charged with responding to stress contains 2 mediators, red and green, typically  in separate cells. early-life stress leads to their presence in a single cell, perhaps amplifying responses to stress later in life
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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Social buffering during fear extinction rescues long-term trauma-induced memory and emotional behavioral alterations in rats www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Social buffering during fear extinction rescues long-term trauma-induced memory and emotional behavioral alterations in rats - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Social buffering during fear extinction rescues long-term trauma-induced memory and emotional behavioral alterations in rats
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TanentzapfLab @tanentzapflab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
5. Mostly what I take away from this (likely apocryphal) story about Barbara McClintock is that science isn't a race, it's a process. Some of us value a rapid process while some of us value a slower paced process. It is important that we don't treat science as a race towards some invisible goal.
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Esther Castillo-Gómez @neuroesther.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Enjoying science at the I Meeting of @reistress.bsky.social! Thanks to @luriguen.bsky.social and the team for such great organization!! Some pics from our groups👇 @paco-olucha.bsky.social @neuroesther.bsky.social
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Neuropsychopharmacology (UPV/EHU) @neuropsychopharm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Our group has hosted the I Meeting of the Spanish Network of Stress Research. Three days full of science and amazing friends and colleagues #REIStress #Bilbao @cibersam.bsky.social
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Red Española de Investigación en Estrés @reistress.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
What a great ending for an amazing meeting! Family picture! I Meeting of the Spanish Network of Stress Research, Bilbao 2025 @ageinves.bsky.social @saludisciii.bsky.social
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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
"We report that numerous “miRNAs” previously reported in EMT and cancer contexts are not incorporated into RISC and are not capable of endogenously silencing target genes, despite the fact that hundreds of publications in the cancer field describe their roles" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Oliver Bosch @olibosch.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
New open access paper out in Neuropharmacology! @alicesanson.bsky.social shares another piece of the puzzle about the role of the #CRF and #oxytocin systems in the nucleus accumbens shell (NacSh) in the postpartum period. You can read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Redirecting
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Leyre Urigüen @luriguen.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
El consenso científico rechaza el creacionismo desde hace más de un siglo. Carta a Mayor Oreja de la Sociedad Española de Biologia Evolutiva sesbe.org/la-evolucion...
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La evolución biológica es un hecho probado: el consenso científico rechaza el creacionismo desde hace más de un siglo
En respuesta a las recientes declaraciones antievolucionistas de Jaime Mayor Oreja, desde la Junta Directiva de la Sociedad Española de Biología hemos escrito esta carta abierta: La evolución biológ...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 02/12/2024
A study in Nature Medicine finds that deep brain stimulation of a region called the lateral hypothalamus improves walking and promotes recovery in humans and rodents with spinal cord injury. go.nature.com/3Vlosyl 🧪
This is figure 6, which shows that DBSLH mediates long-term improvements in walking in humans with SCI.
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Juan Lerma @jlerma1.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Nueva versión del primo de Rajoy…
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Nancy Padilla-Coreano @drnancypadilla.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! We looked at how dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains—turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all! Comparing CD1 & C57 male mice, we found strain-specific dominance behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab…🧵 Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9
diagrams of Behavioral assays tested
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Esther Castillo-Gómez @neuroesther.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#ProudPI 😍
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Esther Castillo-Gómez @neuroesther.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🚨Exciting news from our lab! Our latest study is published in @molpsychiatry! rdcu.be/d1dZW 🎉Big kudos to the team, specially to @aroamanasojeda.bsky.social , who worked very hard to get this paper out! #NESTLab_UJI #REISestres #fcs_UJI #Stress #MentalHealth #SocialBehavior 👇🧵
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Activation of somatostatin neurons in the medial amygdala reverses long-term aggression and social deficits associated to early-life stress in male mice
Molecular Psychiatry - Activation of somatostatin neurons in the medial amygdala reverses long-term aggression and social deficits associated to early-life stress in male mice
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/
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Carmen Sandi @carmensandi10.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Neuroscientists! A key message from the ALBA Network Please help us spread the word and share this with your network!!! Nominate (self-n allowed) a mid-career neuroscientist (5+ years post-PhD) for the ALBA-Roche Research Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience! 🔎http://loom.ly/_EvQvm4 🗓️20 January 2025
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