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Nancy Padilla-Coreano @drnancypadilla.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

(1/6) We have a new paper out in #eNeuro! How does the brain’s reward processing change across social contexts? We mapped brain activity (cFos) & found that social context reshapes how reward circuits are coordinated🐭🏆 Read more: www.eneuro.org/content/12/1...

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Katie Day, Ph.D. @neurokate.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Excited to share that I received #Sfn2025 ‘s Professional Trainee Development Award! Check out my poster M9 “Dopamine dynamics in the nucleus accumbens during maternal behavior in postpartum and virgin CBA/CaJ mice” tonight at the Early Career Development Session, 6:45–8:45 p.m.

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 13/11/2025

And here is the story after peer review. This work highlights our current approach, which is to use Piezo channels to uncover new areas of biology that are shaped by mechanical forces: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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PIEZO channels link mechanical forces to uterine contractions in parturition

Mechanical forces are extensively involved in pregnancy and parturition, but their precise roles and mechanisms remain poorly understood. We identified mechanically activated ion channels PIEZO1 and P...

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Steve Shea @neuroshea.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Everything sucks. Let’s carve out a little space for something that doesn’t. Music League is an app for making collaborative themed playlists. Looking forward to hearing the music that inspires you in times of rage, anxiety, and heartbreak. app.musicleague.com/l/8093706cca... Please RT

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 05/12/2024

When pregnant mothers experience social disadvantage, the brains of their newborns have measurably different functional connectivity, especially in the amygdala, an area with links to psychiatric disorders. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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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

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

In our new preprint, we describe the interplay of oxytocin and sex hormones through the lenses of evolution, development, mechanism, and purpose osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

New preprint from our group, led by @kristinaud.bsky.social 🎉 We report a pre-registered meta-analysis on the effects of oxytocin on social and routinized behaviours in autism, with and without publication bias adjustment. Fantastic work from Kristin!

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