Helen Strnad
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Helen Strnad
@HelenStrnad
she/her Spencer lab University of Colorado Boulder Behavioral Neuroscience PhD candidate. Studying how molecular clocks in the brain tick tock on time.





A day in the life of people Each dot represents a person, each color an activity. It reminds us of the importance of understanding people's lives . Where are you in your day when reading this post? :)



I am ecstatic, happy, delighted, overjoyed and relieved that the full program for the GRC/GRS chronobiology 2023 is online. I have already accepted 100 applications. So 50% of the conference is sold out already. Hope to see you all there for the GRC/GRS. grc.org/chronobiology-…

Ventral Tegmental Area Glutamate Neurons establish a mu-opioid receptor gated circuit to mesolimbic dopamine neurons and regulate ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci



Like adults, children's circadian systems are highly sensitive to light, as @laurenhartstein et al show in their new #JBR paper. Can bright light before bed explain difficulty in getting children to sleep? Read more here: doi.org/10.1177/074873…









