Paper of the week by my last PhD student, Morgan Bucknor! Morgan's research focused on developing a triple-hit murine model of NDDs and used a range of high-res tech to examine the impact on transcriptome and proteome in brain and blood! Super proud! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Paper of the week: "A molecular mechanism mediating clozapine-enhanced sensorimotor gating." Really nice paper, starting with basic behavioural phenotyping, then gradually using more complex techniques. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paper of the week: "Transcriptomic Regulation by Astrocytic m6A Methylation in the mPFC." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Paper of the week: "Dorsal BNST GABA neurons are necessary for chronic unpredictable stress-induced depressive behaviors in adolescent male mice." Activation induces depressive-like behaviours, inhibition alleviates CUS-induced depressive-like behaviours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My paper of the week: "The modified elevated gap interaction test: a novel paradigm to assess social preference." royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

"Multi-level therapeutic actions of cannabidiol in ketamine-induced schizophrenia psychopathology in male rats." It's been more than a decade since I did my PhD on CBD. This is amazing work identifying MOA for CBD's therapeutic potential.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Watching the West Wing for the second time round. Would not have thought it would make so emotional. For the times in which we live in, watching the series gives me hope. #westwing