Abha Karki Rajbhandari, PhD
@brainbodylab.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @MountSinaiPsych ▪Brain+Vagus+Body interactions in stress, fear and energy metabolism Lab ▪Yoga teacher▪
https://labs.icahn.mssm.edu/karkilab/
Nepal/UofM/UW-Mad/UCLA/Sinai
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known"🧠🌌-CS
https://labs.icahn.mssm.edu/karkilab/
Nepal/UofM/UW-Mad/UCLA/Sinai
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known"🧠🌌-CS
A contemplation: If medicine is described as science and practice of health, then aren’t wellness practices also medicine for health? Or is it just 💊. 🤔
January 22, 2026 at 1:21 PM
A contemplation: If medicine is described as science and practice of health, then aren’t wellness practices also medicine for health? Or is it just 💊. 🤔
Just as stress affects the whole brain+body, nutrition, exercise, connection (self and others) and rest (sleep and meditation) affects the whole brain and body even under dis-ease! #holistichealth #brainbody
January 21, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Just as stress affects the whole brain+body, nutrition, exercise, connection (self and others) and rest (sleep and meditation) affects the whole brain and body even under dis-ease! #holistichealth #brainbody
Such a pleasure meeting Dr. Kevin Tracey, hearing his talk, and discussing the #vagusnerve. Grateful he signed The Great Nerve in my office with Vesalius’ vagus illustration behind us! The vagus is central to our lab’s work, and my yoga teaching on parasympathetic regulation. 🙏
January 20, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Such a pleasure meeting Dr. Kevin Tracey, hearing his talk, and discussing the #vagusnerve. Grateful he signed The Great Nerve in my office with Vesalius’ vagus illustration behind us! The vagus is central to our lab’s work, and my yoga teaching on parasympathetic regulation. 🙏
Beautiful memories made with the amazing @sofiyahupalo.bsky.social 🙏✨
I had a fabulous time learning about new science and spending quality time with my favorite people at #ACNP2026. Until next time!
@acnporg.bsky.social @madrelabutd.bsky.social @brainbodylab.bsky.social
@acnporg.bsky.social @madrelabutd.bsky.social @brainbodylab.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Beautiful memories made with the amazing @sofiyahupalo.bsky.social 🙏✨
Beautiful time spent with two of my favorite humans and scientists @msahsorin.bsky.social and @martinpicardenergy.bsky.social! Thanks to @acnporg.bsky.social #energy ✨
January 14, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Beautiful time spent with two of my favorite humans and scientists @msahsorin.bsky.social and @martinpicardenergy.bsky.social! Thanks to @acnporg.bsky.social #energy ✨
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SPECIAL SEMINAR | PRESENTED FOR THE @mountsinainyc.bsky.social COMMUNITY | Co-sponsored by the #BrainBodyResearchInstitute, BMEII Sinai & @mountsinaicvri.bsky.social, @scottrussophd.bsky.social, Filip Swirski & Zahi Fayad are EXCITED to host @northwellhealth.bsky.social's Dr. Kevin J. Tracey!
January 12, 2026 at 7:06 PM
SPECIAL SEMINAR | PRESENTED FOR THE @mountsinainyc.bsky.social COMMUNITY | Co-sponsored by the #BrainBodyResearchInstitute, BMEII Sinai & @mountsinaicvri.bsky.social, @scottrussophd.bsky.social, Filip Swirski & Zahi Fayad are EXCITED to host @northwellhealth.bsky.social's Dr. Kevin J. Tracey!
@acnporg.bsky.social brain–body interactions plenary chaired by Bill Carlezon was powerful, highlighting bidirectional+holistic biology by KarlDeisseroth, Elaine Hsiao, Michael Irwin and @martinpicardenergy.bsky.social. So much to unravel, but grateful to be doing this line of work! 🙏✨
January 12, 2026 at 9:58 PM
@acnporg.bsky.social brain–body interactions plenary chaired by Bill Carlezon was powerful, highlighting bidirectional+holistic biology by KarlDeisseroth, Elaine Hsiao, Michael Irwin and @martinpicardenergy.bsky.social. So much to unravel, but grateful to be doing this line of work! 🙏✨
With so much suffering, pain, and sadness arising, are we practicing our innate capacity for love+compassion, than indifference/division?
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”-Rumi
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”-Rumi
January 9, 2026 at 9:24 PM
With so much suffering, pain, and sadness arising, are we practicing our innate capacity for love+compassion, than indifference/division?
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”-Rumi
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”-Rumi
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Human consciousness intertwines awareness and self-recognition, diverging in meaning among neuroscientists and philosophers. It encompasses states like wakefulness, sleep, and alertness, influenced by physiological processes.
How Consciousness Works: From Sleep to Self-Awareness
Human consciousness intertwines awareness and self-recognition, diverging in meaning among neuroscientists and philosophers. It encompasses states like wakefulness, sleep, and alertness, influenced by physiological processes. The exploration of consciousness includes understanding sleep's restorative functions and self-awareness's role in interactions, highlighting the balance between scientific and moral aspects of human experience.
thinkingbeyondscience.in
January 6, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Human consciousness intertwines awareness and self-recognition, diverging in meaning among neuroscientists and philosophers. It encompasses states like wakefulness, sleep, and alertness, influenced by physiological processes.
Health and healing are always holistic! Science itself shows the importance of nutrition, exercise, rest and connection as fundamental not only for disease prevention, but also for facilitating the process of healing and recovery under disease! #brainbody
January 6, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Health and healing are always holistic! Science itself shows the importance of nutrition, exercise, rest and connection as fundamental not only for disease prevention, but also for facilitating the process of healing and recovery under disease! #brainbody
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I want to share this research was inspired by me-search: everyday yoga practice that involves breathing and meditation and contemplation on biology of mind-breath-body connection! 🙏🧘♀️
Excited to share new work from our lab showing, for the first time, a link between breathing dysregulation, stress responses, and energy metabolism via a neuropeptide receptor mechanism.
This opens new ways of understanding #brainbody interactions!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
This opens new ways of understanding #brainbody interactions!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Disruption of Pre-Bötzinger Complex neuropeptidergic tonality controls fear and metabolic response
Stress profoundly impacts systemic metabolism, yet the central circuits linking stress responses to peripheral metabolic regulation remain poorly defined. Here, we identify the preBötzinger complex (p...
www.biorxiv.org
January 3, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I want to share this research was inspired by me-search: everyday yoga practice that involves breathing and meditation and contemplation on biology of mind-breath-body connection! 🙏🧘♀️
Reposted by Abha Karki Rajbhandari, PhD
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
go.nature.com/49fOOrP
go.nature.com/49fOOrP
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
go.nature.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
go.nature.com/49fOOrP
go.nature.com/49fOOrP
Excited to share new work from our lab showing, for the first time, a link between breathing dysregulation, stress responses, and energy metabolism via a neuropeptide receptor mechanism.
This opens new ways of understanding #brainbody interactions!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
This opens new ways of understanding #brainbody interactions!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Disruption of Pre-Bötzinger Complex neuropeptidergic tonality controls fear and metabolic response
Stress profoundly impacts systemic metabolism, yet the central circuits linking stress responses to peripheral metabolic regulation remain poorly defined. Here, we identify the preBötzinger complex (p...
www.biorxiv.org
January 3, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Excited to share new work from our lab showing, for the first time, a link between breathing dysregulation, stress responses, and energy metabolism via a neuropeptide receptor mechanism.
This opens new ways of understanding #brainbody interactions!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
This opens new ways of understanding #brainbody interactions!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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🚀2026 IS HERE & The @scottrussophd.bsky.social led #BrainBodyResearchInstitute Seminar Series returns Jan 27th to launch an exciting 2026 season. Join us for cutting-edge talks from leaders in #BrainBody research. See you there! RSVP HERE👉 mountsinai.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🚀2026 IS HERE & The @scottrussophd.bsky.social led #BrainBodyResearchInstitute Seminar Series returns Jan 27th to launch an exciting 2026 season. Join us for cutting-edge talks from leaders in #BrainBody research. See you there! RSVP HERE👉 mountsinai.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Happy Winter Solstice & World Meditation Day. Meditation is simple yet profound. In a world pulling us in many directions, it brings us back to awareness. Not about becoming something new, but recognizing what’s always here. Resting in awareness settles the mind+nervous system 🙏
December 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Happy Winter Solstice & World Meditation Day. Meditation is simple yet profound. In a world pulling us in many directions, it brings us back to awareness. Not about becoming something new, but recognizing what’s always here. Resting in awareness settles the mind+nervous system 🙏
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📣We are hiring! 📣
Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher to study brain–body interactions uncovering how neural and physiological systems regulate behavior and energy metabolism under stress!
Details are below:
📩 [email protected] 🔗 careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/3032214
Details are below:
📩 [email protected] 🔗 careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/3032214
Postdoctoral Fellow-MSH-13400-363 in New York, NY | Mount Sinai Health Systems
Mount Sinai is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow-MSH-13400-363 in New York, NY. Review all of the job details and apply today!
careers.mountsinai.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
📣We are hiring! 📣
Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher to study brain–body interactions uncovering how neural and physiological systems regulate behavior and energy metabolism under stress!
Details are below:
📩 [email protected] 🔗 careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/3032214
Details are below:
📩 [email protected] 🔗 careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/3032214
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives…. on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
-the Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan ✨🌏
-the Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan ✨🌏
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives…. on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
-the Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan ✨🌏
-the Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan ✨🌏
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NEW STUDY! Building on pioneering work by Dr. Alison Goate, an international team of researchers, led by #IcahnMountSinai's Anne Schaefer, ID'd distinct population of neuroprotective #Microglia that may point to new therapeutic approach for #Alzheimers. @nature.com 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
NEW STUDY! Building on pioneering work by Dr. Alison Goate, an international team of researchers, led by #IcahnMountSinai's Anne Schaefer, ID'd distinct population of neuroprotective #Microglia that may point to new therapeutic approach for #Alzheimers. @nature.com 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Does pounding of your heart makes you feel afraid, or does the feeling of fear cause your heart to race?
The Cannon-Bard and James-Lange theories have shaped a century of debate about emotion and physiology.
Biologically, the brain and body dialogue is dynamic, continuous, and bi-directional!
The Cannon-Bard and James-Lange theories have shaped a century of debate about emotion and physiology.
Biologically, the brain and body dialogue is dynamic, continuous, and bi-directional!
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Does pounding of your heart makes you feel afraid, or does the feeling of fear cause your heart to race?
The Cannon-Bard and James-Lange theories have shaped a century of debate about emotion and physiology.
Biologically, the brain and body dialogue is dynamic, continuous, and bi-directional!
The Cannon-Bard and James-Lange theories have shaped a century of debate about emotion and physiology.
Biologically, the brain and body dialogue is dynamic, continuous, and bi-directional!
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Some spiritual traditions believe the 'self' as a coherent, enduring entity to be an illusion, there is also a tangible 'bodily self' that forms the basis of this notion through somatosensation.
Fascinating Primer by Pattrick Haggard and @mattlongo.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Fascinating Primer by Pattrick Haggard and @mattlongo.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
October 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Some spiritual traditions believe the 'self' as a coherent, enduring entity to be an illusion, there is also a tangible 'bodily self' that forms the basis of this notion through somatosensation.
Fascinating Primer by Pattrick Haggard and @mattlongo.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Fascinating Primer by Pattrick Haggard and @mattlongo.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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The #brain is often viewed as rather separate from the rest of body. One way it is separated somewhat is the BBB — the blood-brain-barrier.
Fabulous primer by @axelmontagne.bsky.social and Audrey Chagnot
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Fabulous primer by @axelmontagne.bsky.social and Audrey Chagnot
www.cell.com/current-biol...
The blood–brain barrier
Here, Audrey Chagnot and Axel Montagne discuss the structural and functional features
of the blood–brain barrier and the association of its disruption with various pathologies.
www.cell.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The #brain is often viewed as rather separate from the rest of body. One way it is separated somewhat is the BBB — the blood-brain-barrier.
Fabulous primer by @axelmontagne.bsky.social and Audrey Chagnot
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Fabulous primer by @axelmontagne.bsky.social and Audrey Chagnot
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Reposted by Abha Karki Rajbhandari, PhD
Reposted by Abha Karki Rajbhandari, PhD
