
Khalid Elsaafien 🧠🫀
@kelsaafien
@nih_nhlbi K99/R00 Fellow at @GeorgiaStateU. PhD in Neuroscience from @unimelb|@theflorey 🇦🇺. Autonomic control of blood pressure. #hypertension.
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biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Interested in interoception? Here's our latest joint production with Guillaume de Lartigue and the twitterless Annette de Kloet. Following your heart and listening to your gut has implications ranging from therapeutics for cardiometabolic disease to space travel.

The Krause-de Kloet lab taking Portland by storm! #SSIB2023 Khalid Elsaafien 🧠🫀 @SophiaEikenUF Dominique Johnson






Big Congrats to Caitlin Baumer-Harrison, PhD👅🧠 on completing her PhD! Her doctorate studies were an award tour and a lesson in stress resilience. Her mentor, the twitterless Annette de Kloet, and I couldn’t be prouder.


Proud of super post-doc Khalid Elsaafien 🧠🫀! He have a fantastic talk at the GSU postdoc symposium!


So grateful to work with these two amazing post-doc fellows! Congrats to Khalid Elsaafien 🧠🫀 and the twitterless Jessica Sa for giving great presentations at the GSU post-doc symposium! Congrats on the awards!!



Excited that our Research Topic has been completed and is now published in Frontiers - Physiology! This editorial highlights the manuscripts that were submitted to the Research Topic. Follow the link to learn more about our Research Topic: frontiersin.org/research-topic…



Why do we love cake and ice cream? My lab's latest paper in Cell Metabolism led by @molly_mcdougle identifies separate gut-reward circuits for fat and sugar. Foods combining fat and sugar recruit both reward circuits to increase motivation to overeating. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S15…

Thrilled to announce the publication of our manuscript 🥳 The culmination of years of work by the Krause-de Kloet lab and colleagues and a large portion of my dissertation work! Eric Krause Khalid Elsaafien 🧠🫀 Dominique Johnson Jesús Peñaloza jneurosci.org/content/early/…


Here's our early release in J. Neurosci. It delves deeply into why amygdala activity may predict cardiovascular disease events. Shout out to Javier Stern Khalid Elsaafien 🧠🫀 Matt Kirchner, the twitterless Annette de Kloet, and the rest of our amazing team! jneurosci.org/content/early/…

#JNeurosci | A mouse study from Khalid Elsaafien 🧠🫀 Matt Kirchner Javier Stern Eric Krause and colleagues identifies a potential treatment target for stress-related heart disease. Georgia State University doi.org/10.1523/JNEURO…


GSU did a press-release on our recent paper in the Journal of Neuroscience. Interested in mind-body communication that lowers blood pressure and improves mood? Give it a read. Javier Stern Khalid Elsaafien 🧠🫀 Matt Kirchner Georgia State University Research news.gsu.edu/2025/03/24/geo…