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Bianca Leonard
@biancaleonard.bsky.social
MD/PhD Candiate | UC Irvine | GR4, Yassa Lab | PRIME-LC
📰👀 What does a chunk of thalamus have to do with mental health?

Find out in my 1st PhD first-author paper✨about functional connectivity between the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT) and nucleus accumbens in young adults with anhedonia.

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Anhedonia is associated with higher functional connectivity between the nucleus accumbens and paraventricular nucleus of thalamus
Anhedonia stands as a life-threatening transdiagnostic feature of many mental illnesses, most notably major depression and involves neural circuits fo…
sciencedirect.com
August 28, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Reposted by Bianca Leonard
My good friend and inspiring colleague Bianca @biancaleonard.bsky.social sharing her work at #ACNP2023 on imaging the PVT in humans and exploring its role in adversity-induced changes in reward behaviors at yesterday’s hot topics session! Check out her poster on Tuesday (T95)!
December 4, 2023 at 7:00 PM