Francesco Papaleo Lab
@labpapaleo.bsky.social
Papà, Neuroscientist (Social Behavior, Cognition, Psychiatry). Work @ IIT. Worked in 🇮🇹🇨🇵🇺🇸🇪🇺 Web: geco.iit.it
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Self-experience of a negative event alters responses to others in similar states through prefrontal cortex CRF mechanisms - Nature Neuroscience
Maltese et al. show in mice that experiencing an adverse event affects future interaction with others experiencing the same stressor. These self-experience socioemotional reactions are orchestrated by...
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Our new paper is out!! 🥳😊. Emotional Self-Experience Modulation of Reaction to Others Emotions (in mice)! @ IIT www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨 Big news for the neuroscience community!
The Call for Abstracts, Travel Grants and Registrations for #FENS2026 is officially open! 🧠
👉 Register and submit your work today: https://loom.ly/usQR0ao
The Call for Abstracts, Travel Grants and Registrations for #FENS2026 is officially open! 🧠
👉 Register and submit your work today: https://loom.ly/usQR0ao
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚨 Big news for the neuroscience community!
The Call for Abstracts, Travel Grants and Registrations for #FENS2026 is officially open! 🧠
👉 Register and submit your work today: https://loom.ly/usQR0ao
The Call for Abstracts, Travel Grants and Registrations for #FENS2026 is officially open! 🧠
👉 Register and submit your work today: https://loom.ly/usQR0ao
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Time to get working on your symposium proposals!
📣 Roll call
-Who's coming to Cape town?
-Who needs speaker suggestions for a panel?
-Who'd like to join a panel (especially trainees!)
@mfendt.bsky.social @dr-stan.bsky.social @nicoleferrara.bsky.social @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social
📣 Roll call
-Who's coming to Cape town?
-Who needs speaker suggestions for a panel?
-Who'd like to join a panel (especially trainees!)
@mfendt.bsky.social @dr-stan.bsky.social @nicoleferrara.bsky.social @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social
We are excited to invite all behavioral neuroscientists to the 35th Annual IBNS Meeting at Cape Town, South Africa June 23-27, 2026!
Call for Symposia / Satellite Proposals Deadline: Tuesday, October 28, 2025
More information can be found at ibnsconnect.org/meetings
Call for Symposia / Satellite Proposals Deadline: Tuesday, October 28, 2025
More information can be found at ibnsconnect.org/meetings
September 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Time to get working on your symposium proposals!
📣 Roll call
-Who's coming to Cape town?
-Who needs speaker suggestions for a panel?
-Who'd like to join a panel (especially trainees!)
@mfendt.bsky.social @dr-stan.bsky.social @nicoleferrara.bsky.social @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social
📣 Roll call
-Who's coming to Cape town?
-Who needs speaker suggestions for a panel?
-Who'd like to join a panel (especially trainees!)
@mfendt.bsky.social @dr-stan.bsky.social @nicoleferrara.bsky.social @eelkesnoeren.bsky.social
Oxytocin seals the blood–brain barrier, improving 22q11.2 deletion syndrome trajectories url: academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
Oxytocin seals the blood–brain barrier, improving 22q11.2 deletion syndrome trajectories
Castellani et al. show that intranasal administration of oxytocin during the neonatal period alleviates behavioural and immune alterations in a mouse model
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July 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Oxytocin seals the blood–brain barrier, improving 22q11.2 deletion syndrome trajectories url: academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
Oxytocin closing the Blood Brain Barrier?? 🧠 😊 Check out our new paper showing this unexpected effect with consequences on behavioral trajectories, microglia activation, peripheral immune system...
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July 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Oxytocin closing the Blood Brain Barrier?? 🧠 😊 Check out our new paper showing this unexpected effect with consequences on behavioral trajectories, microglia activation, peripheral immune system...
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Official call for PhD fellowship in our lab here, THEORETICAL AND APPLIED NEUROSCIENCE. Call is open till middle of August. Looking forward to working with you :)
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Università di Camerino
BANDO DI CONCORSO PER L’AMMISSIONE AL CORSO DI DOTTORATO DI RICERCA DI INTERESSE NAZIONALE "THEORETICAL AND APPLIED NEUROSCIENCE" - CICLO XLI (a.a. 2025/2026). NOTICE OF COMPETITION FOR ADMISSION TO T...
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July 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Official call for PhD fellowship in our lab here, THEORETICAL AND APPLIED NEUROSCIENCE. Call is open till middle of August. Looking forward to working with you :)
www.unicam.it/bandi/2025/b...
www.unicam.it/bandi/2025/b...
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June 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Come to Genova in October, 2-day Workshop on Social Behavior and its Dysfunctions. FREE registration, info in the attached Flyer:
June 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Come to Genova in October, 2-day Workshop on Social Behavior and its Dysfunctions. FREE registration, info in the attached Flyer:
Sex differences in brain–behavior relationships in the first 2 years of life url:https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article-abstract/35/6/bhaf133/8158513
June 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Sex differences in brain–behavior relationships in the first 2 years of life url:https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article-abstract/35/6/bhaf133/8158513
Integrating reproductive states and social cues in the control of sociosexual behaviors in PFC: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Integrating reproductive states and social cues in the control of sociosexual behaviors
A subset of neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex is shown to exert top-down regulation
of adaptive innate reproductive behaviors by integrating social cues with estrous
states to orchestrate socios...
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June 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Integrating reproductive states and social cues in the control of sociosexual behaviors in PFC: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Etna, Sicily, now:
June 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Etna, Sicily, now:
HIRING! Are you looking for a PhD fellowship? Come join our group geco.iit.it
Opening position starting from November 2025, official call coming out soon. Write me if interested francesco.papaleo@iit.it
Opening position starting from November 2025, official call coming out soon. Write me if interested francesco.papaleo@iit.it
Home - Genetics of Cognition - IIT
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May 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
HIRING! Are you looking for a PhD fellowship? Come join our group geco.iit.it
Opening position starting from November 2025, official call coming out soon. Write me if interested francesco.papaleo@iit.it
Opening position starting from November 2025, official call coming out soon. Write me if interested francesco.papaleo@iit.it
Norepinephrine signals through astrocytes to modulate synapses | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Norepinephrine signals through astrocytes to modulate synapses
Locus ceruleus (LC)–derived norepinephrine (NE) drives network and behavioral adaptations to environmental saliencies by reconfiguring circuit functional connectivity, but the underlying synapse-level...
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May 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Norepinephrine signals through astrocytes to modulate synapses | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
Interesting review on spontaneous activity and predictions.
Idea of "predictions" is natural enough (how could it be otherwise?) but the emphasis on constructing models of the world is not persuasive. And the Bayesian motivation is way too vague imo.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
Interesting review on spontaneous activity and predictions.
Idea of "predictions" is natural enough (how could it be otherwise?) but the emphasis on constructing models of the world is not persuasive. And the Bayesian motivation is way too vague imo.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
May 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
Interesting review on spontaneous activity and predictions.
Idea of "predictions" is natural enough (how could it be otherwise?) but the emphasis on constructing models of the world is not persuasive. And the Bayesian motivation is way too vague imo.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
Interesting review on spontaneous activity and predictions.
Idea of "predictions" is natural enough (how could it be otherwise?) but the emphasis on constructing models of the world is not persuasive. And the Bayesian motivation is way too vague imo.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Our latest superb starling work in @nature.com. We observe long-term reciprocal helping relationships, and suggest reciprocity is an underappreciated mechanism promoting the stability of cooperatively breeding societies. Led by Alexis Earl and @gerrycarter.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A cryptic role for reciprocal helping in a cooperatively breeding bird - Nature
A study of the cooperative breeding behaviour of superb starlings during 40 consecutive breeding seasons over 20 years reveals long-term reciprocal helping between both related and unrelated individua...
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May 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Our latest superb starling work in @nature.com. We observe long-term reciprocal helping relationships, and suggest reciprocity is an underappreciated mechanism promoting the stability of cooperatively breeding societies. Led by Alexis Earl and @gerrycarter.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Multiple #funding opportunities are OPEN to support your #neuroscience journey! Whether you're aiming for PhD, conference travel, or research support - explore & apply 🔍
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#IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm #IBROinEurope
@fens.org @wellcometrust.bsky.social
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#IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm #IBROinEurope
@fens.org @wellcometrust.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Multiple #funding opportunities are OPEN to support your #neuroscience journey! Whether you're aiming for PhD, conference travel, or research support - explore & apply 🔍
buff.ly/olJ2I0b
#IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm #IBROinEurope
@fens.org @wellcometrust.bsky.social
buff.ly/olJ2I0b
#IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm #IBROinEurope
@fens.org @wellcometrust.bsky.social
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🚨 Come work with us!
3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty.
More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2
Please share widely 🔁
3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty.
More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2
Please share widely 🔁
3y_PhDposition_univie_ScanUnit.pdf
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April 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🚨 Come work with us!
3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty.
More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2
Please share widely 🔁
3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty.
More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2
Please share widely 🔁
Nice chat about the Socio-Emotional Brain with Mark Mattson. Check our conversation on his podcast:
the Brain Ponderings:
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/39HsoeK...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@brainponder...
the Brain Ponderings:
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/39HsoeK...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@brainponder...
BRAIN PONDERINGS podcast with Dr. Mark Mattson
Neuroscientist Mark Mattson in conversations with other scientists at the forefront of brain research.
Here are a few of the major questions that BRAIN PONDERINGS guests will tackle:
How have brai...
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April 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Nice chat about the Socio-Emotional Brain with Mark Mattson. Check our conversation on his podcast:
the Brain Ponderings:
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/39HsoeK...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@brainponder...
the Brain Ponderings:
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/39HsoeK...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@brainponder...
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An amazing line up of speakers will explore the bidirectional crosstalk between the central nervous system and the body.
April 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
An amazing line up of speakers will explore the bidirectional crosstalk between the central nervous system and the body.
Distinct synaptic plasticity rules operate across dendritic compartments in vivo during learning | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Distinct synaptic plasticity rules operate across dendritic compartments in vivo during learning
Synaptic plasticity underlies learning by modifying specific synaptic inputs to reshape neural activity and behavior. However, the rules governing which synapses will undergo different forms of plasti...
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April 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Distinct synaptic plasticity rules operate across dendritic compartments in vivo during learning | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Interesting that aggressive encounter,but not non-social stimuli, increased SERT and serotonin in mPFC www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dynamic changes of serotonin transporter expression in the prefrontal cortex evoked by aggressive social interactions
Aggression is a complex behavior influenced by developmental experiences, internal state, and social context, yet its neurobiological underpinnings re…
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April 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Interesting that aggressive encounter,but not non-social stimuli, increased SERT and serotonin in mPFC www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...