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Rachel Essner

@rachelessner.bsky.social

Neuroscientist 🧠. Runner 🏃🏻‍♀️. PhD from Harvard PiN. Williams College '16

Rachel Essner @rachelessner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm thrilled to share the published version of our paper, now officially out in Neuron! Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1no8J3BtfH... One updated highlight: with new analyses we now show how functionally-defined groups of neurons putatively overlap with molecular cell types in LPBN

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Rachel Essner @rachelessner.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I’m so excited to share our preprint on how brainstem neurons sense and integrate multiple body signals during food consumption. We imaged 1000s of neurons across the lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBN) in behaving mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Brainstem sensing of multiple body signals during food consumption

Studies of body-to-brain communication often examine one stimulus or organ at a time, yet the brain must integrate many body signals during behavior. For example, food consumption generates diverse or...

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