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@SethBlackshaw @ThomasDWKim Wow! Such a comprehensive work!

@lallemend_f @NatureComms @karolinskainst Great! Congrats to Saida!

Please spread the word: PhD position available in our lab focusing on Craniofacial Development. The @dfg_public funded project will focus on uncovering the molecular mechanisms that drive orthodontic tooth moment.

Does the brain change during pregnancy? You bet it does. How about doing 26 MRI scans on a single person pre-conception to 2 years post-partum. WOW! Laura Pritschet and colleagues nailed it with their new paper in @NatureNeuro. Key Points: - The authors point out that pregnancy is a period of profound hormonal and physiological changes. - The authors did something incredible by mapping neuroanatomical changes in an individual from preconception through two years postpartum. - Boom! There were pronounced decreases in gray matter volume and cortical thickness. - There were increases in white matter microstructural integrity, ventricle volume and cerebrospinal fluid. - There were few regions untouched by the 'transition to motherhood.' My take: This study shows us how a single brain in a single person can be a powerful resource when scanned serially over time. This method is hard to pull off, however what it has the potential to teach us about neuroscience is mind-blowing. Though this paper is only a single subject, the data provides a comprehensive map of the human brain across gestation. It will be interesting to add to the dataset, so we can understand changes across multiple persons and multiple conditions. The convergence of evidence is revealing that pregnancy as associated with dramatic neuroplasticity. How about a shout out to this 38-year-old woman who underwent 26 MRI scans along with blood draws from 3 weeks preconception through 2 years postpartum! nature.com/articles/s4159… #pregnancy #brain @ndosenbach @andreashorn_ @EMiddlebrooksMD

Deadline approaching, this Friday 16th August!

What are the computational/neural units underlying instincts 🖥️, and where are they located in the brain 🧠? How do neural modules orchestrate behavioral modules, to generate what we semantically recognize as individual behaviors🦉? Thrilled to pursue these questions and to be starting my lab @karolinskainst and @scilifelab in Stockholm! Sounds interesting? Join us and become part of an incredibly dynamic & interdisciplinary research environment! Let's go places! 🚀🚀🚀 fens.org/careers/job-ma…

My first visit to the US ever

Huntington’s disease and schizophrenia have many features in common. Huynh et al. find that glial progenitor cells – necessary for white matter and synaptic maintenance – are similarly defective in each, with shared abnormalities in differentiation. tinyurl.com/5n7mr7fe

It was a great conference far beyond my even very high expectations @HypothalamusGrc #hypoGRC

@KrivanekLab @adameykolab Cool

Together with the labs of Igor Adameyko and Kaj Fried, we had an amazing lab retreat in our South Moravian region! Such a lovely reunion. I’m now full of inspiration👍🙂 ! @adameykolab

@PetzoldKatja @AlekErickson Terrible

Swedish universities are bled dry by the rent taken from the government owned agency Akademiska Hus, rent increased 17% in the last two years with no increase in base funding. (Average increase ~9%) svt.se/nyheter/lokalt…

Excellent news! And now I am looking for motivated postdocs/PHD students to join my lab in the frame of this ambitious project in consortium with @adameykolab @BockLab @gaianovarino @Knoblich_lab @daniela_pollak

Five Emerging Fields will launch cooperative research projects on topics with the highest innovation potential. The consortia are funded by @FWF_at, one of them is coordinated by #MedUniVienna. ➡️ bit.ly/3uZs0MZ #BrainResilience @adameykolab @BockLab @gaianovarino

Happy to present a new study from us about the hypothalamic dopamine neurons and their involvement in locomotion nature.com/articles/s4146…

Cool paper! Behavioral state coding by molecularly defined paraventricular hypothalamic cell type ensembles science.sciencemag.org/content/370/65…

My first thought when I saw this was - can you run this at home? And it turns out, you can! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Curious if the association with blood types is true...can partly explain differences in death rates for different countries nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

How to be more impressive? What a lot of current Neuroscience papers feel like.

Ok. This is super-awesome! Oh that hypothalamus... cc: ⁦@osmoland⁩ ⁦@michael_krashes⁩ ⁦@JacksonLabUConn⁩ the-scientist.com/news-opinion/d…

Our story about hypothalamus development is published Molecular design of hypothalamus development | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…