Koya Lab
@koyalab.bsky.social
We aim to reveal the neuronal ensemble mechanisms of motivated behaviours guided by food-associated cues. We are located in weird and wonderful Brighton on the southern English coast!
(lab homepage: http://tinyurl.com/y44g9a7u)
(lab homepage: http://tinyurl.com/y44g9a7u)
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Koya Lab
@koyalab.bsky.social
· Jul 11
Our article “Prelimbic cortical excitatory overdrive and inhibitory underdrive accompany environmental suppression of food seeking” recently came out on @npp-journal.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/5xpd9ay5 Want to learn more? The thread is below: 1/n
Our article “Environmental Enrichment Suppresses Food Seeking and Increases Inhibitory Interneuron Excitability While Decreasing Corticothalamic Neuronal Recruitment in the Prelimbic Cortex” is now out on @ejneuroscience.bsky.social Read it here: tinyurl.com/2dbnk5c2
Highlights below 👇 1/n
Highlights below 👇 1/n
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Our article “Environmental Enrichment Suppresses Food Seeking and Increases Inhibitory Interneuron Excitability While Decreasing Corticothalamic Neuronal Recruitment in the Prelimbic Cortex” is now out on @ejneuroscience.bsky.social Read it here: tinyurl.com/2dbnk5c2
Highlights below 👇 1/n
Highlights below 👇 1/n
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Excited to announce that I'll be moving to the Univ of California Irvine @ucirvine.bsky.social next Spring!🌴
Happily, this is not goodbye to Japan as I'll continue my lab @RIKEN_CBS for some time.
Help spread the word: the new UCI lab will be hiring, DM or email ([email protected]) if interested!
Happily, this is not goodbye to Japan as I'll continue my lab @RIKEN_CBS for some time.
Help spread the word: the new UCI lab will be hiring, DM or email ([email protected]) if interested!
October 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Excited to announce that I'll be moving to the Univ of California Irvine @ucirvine.bsky.social next Spring!🌴
Happily, this is not goodbye to Japan as I'll continue my lab @RIKEN_CBS for some time.
Help spread the word: the new UCI lab will be hiring, DM or email ([email protected]) if interested!
Happily, this is not goodbye to Japan as I'll continue my lab @RIKEN_CBS for some time.
Help spread the word: the new UCI lab will be hiring, DM or email ([email protected]) if interested!
Cool new study on how operant training and extinction learning recruit distinct prelimbic cortex ensembles to support opposing behavioural responses from Bruce Hope's lab! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Distinct prelimbic cortex ensembles encode response execution and inhibition | PNAS
Learning when to initiate or withhold actions is essential for survival, requiring
the integration of past experiences with new information to adap...
www.pnas.org
October 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Cool new study on how operant training and extinction learning recruit distinct prelimbic cortex ensembles to support opposing behavioural responses from Bruce Hope's lab! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I recently learned that my PhD mentor, Pieter Voorn, passed away at the age of 70.
He was a superb, ‘classical’ neuroanatomist at VU Medical Center in Amsterdam, working alongside Gloria Meredith, Henk Groenewegen, Harry Uylings, and Chris Wright.
He was a superb, ‘classical’ neuroanatomist at VU Medical Center in Amsterdam, working alongside Gloria Meredith, Henk Groenewegen, Harry Uylings, and Chris Wright.
September 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I recently learned that my PhD mentor, Pieter Voorn, passed away at the age of 70.
He was a superb, ‘classical’ neuroanatomist at VU Medical Center in Amsterdam, working alongside Gloria Meredith, Henk Groenewegen, Harry Uylings, and Chris Wright.
He was a superb, ‘classical’ neuroanatomist at VU Medical Center in Amsterdam, working alongside Gloria Meredith, Henk Groenewegen, Harry Uylings, and Chris Wright.
Flight back has been cancelled so must spend another day in Almeria! Not a bad place to get stranded ! 😁
September 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Flight back has been cancelled so must spend another day in Almeria! Not a bad place to get stranded ! 😁
Seen today in Brighton: Old-school, non-LLM, analogue spell checking! 😄
September 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Seen today in Brighton: Old-school, non-LLM, analogue spell checking! 😄
Reposted by Koya Lab
Reposted by Koya Lab
In this recent #ResearchHighlight, the authors discuss new findings pointing a potential non-pharmacological approach for mitigating maladaptive craving behaviors
To indulge or enrich: how environmental enrichment affects neurons that promote food seeking
Neuropsychopharmacology - To indulge or enrich: how environmental enrichment affects neurons that promote food seeking
www.nature.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In this recent #ResearchHighlight, the authors discuss new findings pointing a potential non-pharmacological approach for mitigating maladaptive craving behaviors
Seen today in Brighton: A tribute to Pac-man on wheels! 😄
August 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Seen today in Brighton: A tribute to Pac-man on wheels! 😄
The Shoya House at The Huntington, San Marino, CA. A house built in the Edo period 300 years ago in Marugame Japan. It was disassembled there and reassembled at The Huntington. Amazing !
July 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The Shoya House at The Huntington, San Marino, CA. A house built in the Edo period 300 years ago in Marugame Japan. It was disassembled there and reassembled at The Huntington. Amazing !
Friday happiness=yakitori and Suntory Premium Malts at Torikizoku! 😋
July 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Friday happiness=yakitori and Suntory Premium Malts at Torikizoku! 😋
Our article “Prelimbic cortical excitatory overdrive and inhibitory underdrive accompany environmental suppression of food seeking” recently came out on @npp-journal.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/5xpd9ay5 Want to learn more? The thread is below: 1/n
July 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Our article “Prelimbic cortical excitatory overdrive and inhibitory underdrive accompany environmental suppression of food seeking” recently came out on @npp-journal.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/5xpd9ay5 Want to learn more? The thread is below: 1/n
Nice views of Arundel this afternoon!
June 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Nice views of Arundel this afternoon!
Many years ago I found this book at a used bookstore in Brighton by Louis-Antoine Ranvier dated 1889. Although I don't understand any French, it was still cool to see drawings of microscopes that were used back then! (Not sure it this is the microscope he used to discover those famous 'nodes')
June 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Many years ago I found this book at a used bookstore in Brighton by Louis-Antoine Ranvier dated 1889. Although I don't understand any French, it was still cool to see drawings of microscopes that were used back then! (Not sure it this is the microscope he used to discover those famous 'nodes')
Seen on the Sussex campus! The answer to the question is 'yes'! 😄
June 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Seen on the Sussex campus! The answer to the question is 'yes'! 😄
A nice view of Blakers Park this evening with the English Channel in the distance!
April 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A nice view of Blakers Park this evening with the English Channel in the distance!
The warm and sunny spring days are here at Preston Park! 😎
April 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The warm and sunny spring days are here at Preston Park! 😎
I finally started an account here! 😀 I'll start on a sunny note with some spring time shots of Falmer Village!
April 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I finally started an account here! 😀 I'll start on a sunny note with some spring time shots of Falmer Village!