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@urneuroscience.bsky.social research lab of @zvr-bsj.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social, dedicated to understanding #discriminationlearning and #psychopathology using #VR, #MRI, and #ML. Happy to connect with the research community on Bluesky!
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@zvr-bsj.bsky.social Congrats on your latest publication! 🎉
#URochesterResearch #neuroskyence 🧠
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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🎃Happy Halloween from the @zvrlab.bsky.social FBI (Functional Brain Investigation)! Our investigators are off to identify the elusive psychological & neural signatures of #PTSD and #anxiety disorders. 🧠
#URochesterResearch #neuroimaging #neuroskyence
@zvr-bsj.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social
Five people walk down a hallway, dressed all in black and wearing badges reading FBI (Functional Brain Investigators). Logo with a graphic of a brain in the middle of a blue background, surrounded by gold leaves, reading "FUNCTIONAL BRAIN INVESTIGATION UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER" created for Halloween 2025.
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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In a #monster-sized analysis, @zvr-bsj.bsky.social et. al used #fMRI to look at the #brains of 2199 individuals across 9 countries to learn more about what happens in the 🧠 during human #fear #conditioning. Good reading on fear for the spookiest day of the year! 🎃😱🌎
#URochesterResearch #neuroskyence
Neural correlates of human fear conditioning and sources of variability in 2199 individuals - Nature Communications
A large brain imaging study of over 2000 people worldwide shows that fear conditioning engages brain regions linked to emotion and attention, with differences in individuals with anxiety or depression...
www.nature.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Sometimes it only takes 5 minutes to spark a new collaboration – our annual Seeds for Collaboration featured researchers studying intellectual and developmental disabilities, mercury, and rapidly testing many drugs #URochesterResearch @wilmotcancer.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social
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October 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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There's still time to register! 👇
urneuroscience.bsky.social Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · Sep 30
🚨 Registration extended to Oct. 3

We're convening intellectual and developmental disabilities research experts from across the country for a two day symposium

🔗 bit.ly/46xlBXL
📅 Oct 28 & 29
📍 Rochester, NY - a top place to visit in the fall via
@usatoday.com
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🎨 @charmainela.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Dr. Steve Goldman has taken his research from birds to people, demonstrating that stimulating natural brain processes may help repair damaged neural networks in Huntington's & other diseases #URochesterResearch

🎧Latest episode of Neuroscience Perspectives w/ @johnfoxe.bsky.social
Can the Brain Be Repaired by Replacing Its Cells?
YouTube video by Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience
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September 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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On September 17, the @urochester.bsky.social School of Medicine and Dentistry celebrated 100 years of #meloria (ever better). Happy #centennial, @urochestersmd.bsky.social! 🎂
Graphic reading "100 years School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Rochester" featuring the 1850 Meliora shield logo.
September 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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How does alcohol impact brain cells?

Mariah Marrero in the Arefin Lab @urochestersmd.bsky.social uses advanced imaging techniques to study the impact alcohol use disorders have on astrocytes & the brain's communication network #URochesterResearch In a Neuro Minute🧠
September 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Excellent writing by @lucinauddin.bsky.social on the importance of multinational collaboration in #neuroscience research, and how US mandates are jeopardizing both funding and data access for international partners.
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September 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Congratulations to our favorite PI, Ben Suarez-Jimenez, on this new publication! 👏 @zvr-bsj.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social #neuroskyence #neuroimaging #fear #conditioning
September 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Some brains may be wired for pain—before it even starts

On Neuroscience Perspectives, Dr. @paulgeha.bsky.social discusses groundbreaking research on brain pathways that predict chronic pain risk

🎧 Full episode → bit.ly/4n7nAt9

@johnfoxe.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social #podcast
September 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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It's always bittersweet when a lab member says goodbye! 😭 Shreya Bavdekar is off to new adventures at @colorado.edu. Best of luck Shreya, your future is bright! We appreciate you. ❤️🌟 #URochesterResearch @urochestersmd.bsky.social @zvr-bsj.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social
Image of a large wall mounted computer monitor with text reading "THANK YOU, SHREYA!!! WE'LL MISS YOU!!" and various photos of of Shreya at poster presentations, the UR PREP Symposium and in the ZVR Lab with lab members. Six ZVR Lab members smile and pose for a photo in the lab with Shreya, including, in the front row, Tanya Garg, Shreya Bavdekar, and Melanie Snell, and in the back row, Skylar DeWitt, Abigail Bossa, and Caitlin Sharp.
July 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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So happy to see our NEUROCITY Scholars @urneuroscience.bsky.social making the most of their summer at @urochestersmd.bsky.social! 🌞🧠
#URochesterResearch #neuroskyence #science
urneuroscience.bsky.social Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @urneuroscience.bsky.social · Jul 14
Weekday work to weekend adventures! What summertime looks like for our NEUROCITY Scholars☀️

Learn more 👉 neurocity.urmc.edu

@urochestersmd.bsky.social @cuny.edu #URochesterResearch
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July 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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🎉We're proud that @urochester.bsky.social is now one of only eight Nathan Shock Centers of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging by NIH to advance our efforts in understanding of why and how we age #URochesterResearch
Rochester named site of research center to study the biology of aging
The NIH-funded center will allow researchers to explore why some species live longer—and what that could mean for human health.
www.rochester.edu
July 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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What’s going right in the world: 30 Indigenous communities won against a gold mine, turning plastic into painkillers, Poland moves to renewables, saving earthworms along a posting route… What’s your story?
July 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Congratulations to the 4! new Mental Health First Aid certified members of our 🧠lab, Skylar DeWitt, Abigail Bossa, Tanya Garg, and Caitlin Sharp! 🎉
#URochesterResearch @skylardewitt.bsky.social @abigailbossa.bsky.social
Find more info on this training @urochestersmd.bsky.social:
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bit.ly/4lG1pZZ
July 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Congratulations to our favorite PI, @zvr-bsj.bsky.social, et al., on this recent publication in universitypress.cambridge.org, "PTSD subtypes and their underlying neural biomarkers: a systematic review"! #PTSD #research #neuroimaging #neuroskyence 🧠
July 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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#Healthcare is a human right. ❤️
who.int WHO @who.int · Jun 26
No one should be denied health care because of who they are or who they love. #HealthForAll #PrideMonth
June 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Looks like a happy little #neuron to me! Must be all of those connections! #neuroscience #brainthings #science 🧠😉
simonepapa.bsky.social Simone Papa @simonepapa.bsky.social · Jun 17
Human Brain: ~86B neurons with ~100T connections
Here is just one neuron with its connections.
Some neurons have connections with hundreds or even thousands of other neurons! (by Igor Korolev, DO, PhD )

VIDEO CREDIT: Andrew Moore & Pedro Guedes-Dias (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
June 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Please join us in congratulating Shreya Bavdekar and the 2025 URMC PREP cohort on their outstanding presentations at the PREP Symposium! Next up for Shreya: @colorado.edu! 🎓👏 #URochesterResearch #neuroskyence @zvr-bsj.bsky.social @jackofrogy.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social
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Six people stand and pose for a photo at the URMC PREP Symposium on June 17, 2025. From left to right, Brook Melon, PREP Program Coordinator, PREP Program Directors Elaine Smolock and Jacques Robert, Caitlin Sharp (Shreya's Bench Mentor), Shreya Bavdekar (holding her program completion certificate), and our favorite PI (and Shreya's Mentor), Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez.
June 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Last week, grad student Tanya Garg shared "How threat influences selection history: An eye-tracking study of attentional biases following trauma" for her 2-year Clinical Psychology presentation @urochester.bsky.social. Congrats, Tanya! #URochesterResearch #psychsky #neuroskyence @zvr-bsj.bsky.social
ZVR Lab members pose for a photo outside on a sunny day, in front of a tree on the University of Rochester Campus. From left to right, Shreya Bavdekar, Skylar DeWitt, Caitlin Sharp, Tanya Garg, Abigail Bossa, and Melanie Snell.
June 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Did someone say summer?! Let's kick off summer learning with a picnic😎

Since '21, we have welcomed NEURO RocHS & NEUROCITY scholars. High school students from the Rochester City School District & undergrads from @cuny.edu spend the summer working in our neuroscience labs #URochesterResearch
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June 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Just started following @jacobsimonsays.bsky.social to get more #goodnews like this. I hope those high school scientists go into #neuroskyence research and continue helping others. Excellent work! #science #neuroscience
jacobsimonsays.bsky.social Jacob Simon (says) @jacobsimonsays.bsky.social · Jun 11
News we need more of:

🦿 3 high schoolers invented a brain-powered prosthetic leg for their friend who was struggling w/ his, winning $50K to help others (GoodGoodGood)

🌊 20 more countries ratified the UN High Seas Treaty to protect int'l oceans, now at 51/60 needed (France24)

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June 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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NEW: Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez is the recipient of a @urneuroscience.bsky.social Pilot Award for a new #VR study, "Translating rodent paradigms to virtual reality to understand human approach-avoidance behavior during decision-making conflict." Congrats, @zvr-bsj.bsky.social 🧠🥽 #URochesterResearch
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DMIN Pilot Awards - Funding Opportunities - For Researchers - Del Monte Neuroscience Institute - University of Rochester Medical Center
www.urmc.rochester.edu
June 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Researchers find that a brief episode of anxiety may have a bigger influence on someone's ability to learn what is safe and what is not #URochesterResearch
Researchers Find Temporary Anxiety Impacts Learning
A brief episode of anxiety may have a bigger influence on a person’s ability to learn what is safe and what is not.
www.urmc.rochester.edu
June 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM