New preprint from the lab! We identified Vipr2-expressing BNST neurons as a distinct subpopulation of the oval nucleus that promotes feeding, is activated by food restriction, is non-overlapping with appetite-suppressing PKC delta neurons, and projects to PSTN & PVN hypothalamic feeding centers.

Overexpressing nuclear-localized HDAC5 in the anterior insula of 🐀 = ⬇️ cognitive control by ⬆️ prepotent responses & ⬇️ behavioral inhibition - suggesting targeting insular HDAC5 could help executive control & impulsivity-related deficits

Interested in investigating the neuroscience of motivation, stress, and drug use? Our lab is recruiting a grad student to start in Fall 2026. Please see our website for more information!
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New article from blueskyless Marina Smoak et al. in our lab on prelimbic neurons tracking anxiety-like behavior! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Looking for a postdoc or staff scientist with brain slice electrophysiology experience. If you or someone you know is interested in, message me.

We’re excited to share our new preprint from the lab! PhD student @armorningstar.bsky.social demonstrated how Early Life Stress shapes sex-specific vulnerability to alcohol behavioral sensitivity, alcohol drinking, and alcohol's effects on social behaviors in mice.

Ever wonder what the enduring side effects of Prozac are? Check this out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The University of Puerto Rico has built a strong neuroscience community via federally funded programs. Carmen Maldonado-Vlaar explains how funding cuts threaten minority-serving institutions’ progress toward becoming premier research institutions.

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/the-...

So a former postdoc from our department had just started as a PO at NIH and was terminated in the wave of terminations last week. He is in the research triangle and a phenomenal scientist with expertise in stress and glia. If anyone in the RTI is hiring asap please let me know! #neuroskyence

We’re excited to join Bluesky, along with @acnporg.bsky.social & @npp-journal.bsky.social! Follow us for the latest on digital methodologies that advance the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and modeling of mental illness.

And of course, we will be posting #ACNP2024 updates!
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Just in time for Thanksgiving, we're grateful for the publication of our paper in #eLife
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
We measured dopamine and behavioral responses to intraorally delivered sucrose across acquisition and extinction of a conditioned taste aversion.
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Join #UNCResearch as part of our Catalyst Faculty Research Cluster Program. We’re seeking up to four researchers for tenure-track assistant professor positions to build a team that will advance substance use disorder treatment.
Apply here by December 15: go.unc.edu/Rt9b7

Compulsion derived from incentive cocaine-seeking habits is associated with a downregulation of the dopamine transporter in striatal astrocytes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.19.624285v1