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A master regulator of opioid reward in the ventral prefrontal cortex | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🚨 new opinion piece alert 🚨 Marie Eikemo @GuroLoseth & I revisit an old dataset - inspired by Kelly Dunn, PhD, MBA’s super thorough opioid drug effects study We argue that the variability is meaningful & that the field needs to pool data into a consortium 📊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad…

I'm delighted to share my grad student Vini's publication! doi.org/10.1016/j.pneu… (open access to all) One of the first major publications to come from my lab. He started off with a very basic question: how do neurons **sense** injury to their dendrites?

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🚨 NEW Neuropsychopharmacology paper alert 🚨 Barbano, Morales, & team report that VTA glutamatergic projections to the nucleus accumbens suppress psychostimulant-seeking behavior in 🐭 nature.com/articles/s4138…

New paper out! 🐁🐀🧠 We show that inflammatory responses can be socially transmitted among conspecifics, especially in the postnatal period. BrainBehavImm CSAN Thanks to all the team 😄 doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.…

So happy to say that I officially have my first publication🥳 Thank you to Camila Demaestri, PhD and congratulations on another amazing paper🌟 Check it out: nature.com/articles/s4146…

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New paper out in Nature Neuroscience! Collaborating with several labs, we developed genetically encoded biosensors to track opioid pharmacology in the brain & provide powerful new tools for dissecting complex circuit-specific dynamics 🔧🧠 nature.com/articles/s4159…

Join us in congratulating the 2024 ACNP Travel Award Class! bit.ly/46GyJK1 Amanda Arulpragasam Estef Azevedo Igor D. Bandeira, MD, PhD Andrea Boscutti @CarinaSBrown Brenda Cabrera Mendoza Robert Y. Chen Seungwon (Sebastian) Choi 최승원 Dr. Kirstie Cummings Ashley Cunningham, MSc 🧠 Pasha Davoudian Kevin Dowling 🧬🧠 Lana Ruvolo, PhD

📢Excited to share our new pub in Dev Psychobiology! with Su Yeong Kim onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… We examine how neighborhood and household contexts influence hair cortisol levels—a biomarker of chronic stress—in Mexican-origin adolescents from low-income immigrant families.

A rat model of operant negative reinforcement in opioid-dependent males and females link.springer.com/article/10.100…

No, despite appearances, these are NOT my frying neurons, but axon projections of CRH/GABA expressing BLA neurons to dorsomedial striatum. Paper dropping soon. By the amazing yuncai . it is #FluorescenceFriday somewhere

1/9: Delighted to announce that our faculty cluster hire for the newly established Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries at UC Irvine is now live. The submission deadline is April 9, 2025.

JUST dropped! Neuron Review on the Evolving Neurobiology of Early-life stress with Matt Birnie . Where is our field? what are our challenges? Where and how are we going? 300 refs. cell.com/neuron/fulltex… UC Irvine UC Irvine School of Medicine

Dear colleagues & friends: In light of recent announcements, the search committees and I wanted to reassure potential candidates that the faculty search (three faculty openings) for our new UCI Depression Institute continues as planned. Please RT

Stress can either forge resilience or trigger depression. A captivating nature study reveals that a hippocampal-amygdala pathway encodes the resilience trait, and stimulating this circuit can even reverse stress-induced depression.