“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives…. on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”

-the Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan ✨🌏

This Lancet Neurology article emphasizes that lifestyle interventions like physical activity, nutrition, sleep quality and stress management are important for symptom management and disease modification in Parkinson’s disease.

Lifestyle is not just fringe!

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Such a nice collection of brain-body interaction articles in the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social. Love the beautiful vagus nerve on the cover by Andreas Vesalius www.cell.com/current-biol...

Happy #Diwali to all who celebrate! First public school holiday in NYC. 🪔✨

Diwali reminds us to shine our inner light, illuminating wisdom and dispelling the darkness of ego, division, and ignorance.

In Nepal, during Diwali the friendship and love of dogs is also celebrated.

Academic path isn’t easy, but the joy of discovery, finding possibilities for healing and mentoring trainees keeps me going. Celebrating submitting two manuscripts on brain–body stress interactions & a master’s thesis defense. Grateful to my lab & special thanks to @neuromanonyc.bsky.social 🙏✨

So amazing that our graduate student Sanutha Shetty presented her work on the role of #breathing circuits on stress-related cardiometabolic outcomes at the Cardiovascular Research Institute Retreat and won a best trainee talk award! @sinaibrain.bsky.social 🙌

Sometimes, even amidst the chaos and uncertainty, there is something to be grateful for 🙏🏽 #mindbody

Incredible to see growing science on yogā-postures, breathwork, and meditation— for brain injury, metabolism, pain, reproductive health, pregnancy etc at Neuroscience and Yogā conference.
Ancient interoceptive wisdom on body, mind, thought awareness is holistic medicine!

Stories of scientific journeys help us understand the human behind the data or discovery!

Another year of a fantastic night filled with stories of science — stories that inspired, connected, and reminded us of the human spirit! @sinaibrain.bsky.social

Kicking off the #brainawareness week with these fabulous scientists. For our lab, the most exciting part is sharing the importance of brain and body interactions 🧠🙌🏽✨. @sinaibrain.bsky.social

I am so thankful to our entire team of wonderful beings! This one from our holiday get-together yesterday!

First time at #acnp2024 conference and totally doing great making a new desert 🏜️ friend! 😆

Loving this illustration which is described as “A mouse breathes in air to form a brain-shaped cloud, which pours rain down onto a wildfire that represents the hot emotions of anxiety and panic.” by Salk Institute! #breathe

Festschrift of dear mentor Michael Fanselow. So great to honor his scientific legacy and mentoring 🙏🏽✨. @stevemaren.bsky.social @ginapoe.bsky.social @sjo09.bsky.social

Representing Nepali 🇳🇵neuroscientists at SfN with Prerana Shrestha and Prabhat Kunwar! Amazing meeting many others. 🙏🏽

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We are excited to announce that our Brain Body Lab will be at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). We invite you to visit our posters showcasing new research on interoceptive mechanisms of stress. Join us on November 11th from 1 to 5 PM! 🧠🫀🌬️

So grateful to be a mentor to these amazing humans! Welcoming Pamela Toh, Andrew Fajardo (Masters students) and Gabriela Picazo ( CEYE) into our brain body team.