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Jess Cardin @jess-cardin.bsky.social · 17h

I thought we would never work on gamma oscillations again, but I was wrong 🤷‍♀️ So happy to see this work out in @nature.com! This was a truly epic project spearheaded by @q-perrenoud.bsky.social. Gamma isn't always an oscillation, but it's critical for sensory encoding and perceptual performance 🧠

Quentin Perrenoud @q-perrenoud.bsky.social · 18h

(1/8) My latest study is out in @nature.com ! Kudos to coauthors especially @jess-cardin.bsky.social and to @kavliatyale.bsky.social and @wutsaiyale.bsky.social for support. We find that gamma power in mouse visual cortex is caused by brief events of visual processing www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Flexible perceptual encoding by discrete gamma events - Nature

Using a new analytical method for tracking gamma band events in mouse visual cortex, flexible encoding of visual information according to behavioural context is shown.

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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · 2d

Music might be keeping your mind sharp! 🎶🧠

In a new @buzzfeed.com article, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's Fesharaki-Zadeh, MD, PhD, explains how making music can help build your brain’s cognitive reserve, keeping it resilient 🛡️ against aging & disease.

This 1 Hobby Is Great For An Aging Brain, According To A New Study

If you want to protect your brain as you age, pick up this hobby.

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Emilia Favuzzi @emiliafavuzzi.bsky.social · 5d

WTI Postdoctoral Fellowship applications are open! Unique opportunity for those pivoting fields or working across disciplines. I’d be happy to support candidates with a background in immunology and/or in vivo 2-photon imaging, including collaborations with other WTI labs wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowships | Wu Tsai Institute

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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · 5d

In a recent @cp-neuron.bsky.social study, @dscheinost.bsky.social and @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's Jean Ye found that neural variability 🧠—brain fluctuations that support flexible behavior—increases 📈 through childhood 👶before stabilizing in adolescence🧍

Brain Activity is Increasingly Variable During Development

Fluctuations in brain activity increase until mid-adolescence. Deviations from this trajectory are linked to worse executive functioning.

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Yale Neuroscience @yaleneuro.bsky.social · 7d

In a new @natcomms.nature.com study, Yale's @schandralab.bsky.social found that mutations in the GBA gene 🧬 may drive the cognitive decline 🧠 seen in individuals with #Parkinsons, as opposed to a buildup of alpha-synuclein as previously thought.

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How Gene Mutations Drive Dementia in Parkinson’s Disease

New findings reveal motor and cognitive deficits arise through separate mechanisms in Parkinson’s disease, challenging previous thinking.

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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · 8d

In a new @usatoday.com article, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's John Krystal, MD, both advocates for and cautions the use of ketamine therapy in teenagers suffering from depression.

Parents are quietly trying ketamine therapy for their teens. It's highly controversial.

Doctors say ketamine therapy can provide life-saving support in cases where other medications have failed, but there are potential risks involved.

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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · 12d

Supported by a $5M @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social Depts of Neurosurgery & Psychiatry have launched a study to uncover the neural & genomic mechanisms driving anxiety. Initial pilot work was funded by Yale Center for Brain & Mind Health + @kavliatyale.bsky.social

Yale Scientists Seek to Uncover Neural and Genomic Mechanisms that Drive Anxiety

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosurgery at Yale School of Medicine has launched a pioneering study aimed at

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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · 14d

A new @journalofnucmed.bsky.social study shows how a novel PET radiotracer (SV2A) can track synaptic changes in a rat's spinal cord & brain post-injury.

@yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social's Jason Cai, PhD: "Our work has potential to revolutionize the way spinal cord injury is diagnosed."

Novel PET Tracer Detects Synaptic Changes in Spinal Cord and Brain After Spinal Cord Injury

A new PET tracer can provide insights into how spinal cord injuries affect not only the spinal cord, but also the brain, according to new research published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine

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Yale Neuroscience @yaleneuro.bsky.social · 16d

🚨 Only 3 days left to register! 🚨
Yale postdocs, don’t miss the Oct 9th @kavliatyale.bsky.social Chalk Talk event, featuring tips by @schandralab.bsky.social & a mock talk by @trevorsorrells.bsky.social!

Register Today!👇
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Flyer for The Chalk Talk event on Oct 9.

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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · 23d

Wonder why social needs differ from childhood to adulthood? 🤱➡️🧑 In a new @currentbiology.bsky.social study, @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social researchers, led by Marcelo Dietrich, found that Agrp neurons in the hypothalamus 🧠 drive social needs during youth but slowly lose this role in adulthood.

Quitting time: Neurons that drive sociable behavior in children and teens turn off in adulthood

Researchers have mapped the neural signaling that drives social impulses critical to survival in young mammals.

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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · 28d

In a new study led by @kavliatyale.bsky.social graduate student @kathy-ayala.bsky.social 👩‍🔬, researchers studied 51 pregnant women in their third trimester🤰 and found that higher fetal movement was linked to stronger maternal-fetal attachment.🤱✨

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Associations between fetal movement and maternal-fetal attachment in late pregnancy

Maternal-fetal attachment (MFA) represents the evolving psychological bond between a pregnant person and their fetus, reflecting early emotional inves…

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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · 29d

📅 Mark your calendars and join us Thursday, Oct 9, for the 2025 edition of the Kavli Chalk Talk! 🧠

Learn from @schandralab.bsky.social & @trevorsorrells.bsky.social about what makes a great chalk talk 👩‍🏫🗣️ and senior postdocs can practice their own.

Register by Sept 25! (Yale only) 👇

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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · Sep 8

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for last Friday’s @kavliatyale.bsky.social Networking Hour, hosted by @colon-ramos-lab.bsky.social! 🙌 Missed it? No worries—you’ll have another chance at the next one! 😉🎉

Flyer for the Kavli Networking Hour of Sept 5, with a sunset background.

Yale neuroscientists mingling with food and beverages at the Kavli Networking Hour.

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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · Sep 5

🚨LAST CHANCE TO APPLY🚨 Senior postdocs — the deadline to apply for #SYNAPSES is THIS SUNDAY! Don’t miss this chance to showcase your latest work at our in-person symposium 🧠✨ on Oct 23, 2025. @yaleneuro.bsky.social

Apply Today! 👇

SYNAPSES:

The Neuroscience Department and Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale are pleased to announce the 2025 SYNAPSES Symposium to be held on October 23, 2025.

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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · Aug 28

Fantastic work from the labs of ‪@stevewcchang.bsky.social, @neuralnandy.bsky.social, and Monika Jadi, led by Olivia Meisner & Weikang Shi. Our Kavli Institute is proud to have supported this research through our neurotechnology core (marmoset apparatus for automated pulling).

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Zachary H. Gursky @zachary-gursky.bsky.social · Aug 19

It is great to welcome @shariwiseman.bsky.social (back) to Yale along with the Yale Neuro Postdoc Committee [YNPC], @kavliatyale.bsky.social, and @yaleneuro.bsky.social ! Pictures are of her first talk to a packed room of trainees, about scientific publishing and related careers

Shari Wiseman standing in front of a room and speaking to trainee scientists, mostly postdoctoral researchers and graduate students.

A different angle of Shari Wiseman standing in front of a room and speaking to trainee scientists, mostly postdoctoral researchers and graduate students.

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Kathy Ayala @kathy-ayala.bsky.social · Aug 15

Excited to share my first-author paper in Early Human Development! Using objective monitoring, we found more frequent fetal movement is associated with stronger maternal–fetal attachment, offering new insight into bonding during pregnancy. #MaternalHealth www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Associations between fetal movement and maternal-fetal attachment in late pregnancy

Maternal-fetal attachment (MFA) represents the evolving psychological bond between a pregnant person and their fetus, reflecting early emotional inves…

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Elizabeth Goldfarb @evgoldfarb.bsky.social · Aug 6

How do brain networks tracking past trauma react to stress in the future? Thrilled to share new work from the lab led by rockstar postdoc @felhardi.bsky.social with wonderful collab @dylanggee.bsky.social
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#psychscisky #neuroskyence

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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · Jul 15

In the future, Aya aims to lead a lab focused on understanding the brain network dysfunction in epilepsy and other neurological disorders, with the ultimate goal to improve patient quality of life. Best of luck, Aya! [5/5]

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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · Jul 15

Aya received a NIH K99/R00 to lead the development of clinical tools to predict impaired consciousness during seizures. She is also co-leading a multisite adversarial collaboration testing competing theories of consciousness—Global Neuronal Workspace Theory and Integrated Information Theory. [4/5]

Quote from Aya Khalaf, PhD: “This work shows how collaborative efforts and big data approaches in neuroscience can reveal principles about brain function that would be difficult to discover through smaller, isolated studies, ultimately opening new possibilities for understanding and treating neurological disorders.”

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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · Jul 15

With a BSc and MSc in Biomedical Engineering from Cairo University in Egypt and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, Aya has strong computational skills that she applies to answer clinical and translational research questions to improve patient care. [3/5]

Quote from Aya Khalaf, PhD: “Yale's world-class research in consciousness and epilepsy, combined with the interdisciplinary environment at the School of Medicine, perfectly matched my goal of applying engineering approaches to fundamental brain questions with immediate clinical applications.”

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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · Jul 15

The analysis of massive fMRI datasets shed light into the fundamental mechanisms of attention and consciousness, which could lead to better targeted therapies for epilepsy and other consciousness-related conditions. [2/5]

Quote from Aya Khalaf, PhD: “This work was incredibly exciting because we discovered that all sensory modalities activate the same central brain regions during attention transitions—something that had never been demonstrated before across multiple senses.”

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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · Jul 15

This week's #TraineeTuesday is Aya Khalaf, PhD!
Aya is a postdoc in the Blumenfeld lab in #Yale Neurology. She recently published an article in NeuroImage showing how different senses—vision, hearing, touch, and taste—activate the same deep brain regions during transitions in attention [1/5]

Shared subcortical arousal systems across sensory modalities during transient modulation of attention

Subcortical arousal systems are known to play a key role in controlling sustained changes in attention and conscious awareness. Recent studies indicat…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811925002277"

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Yale Neuroscience @yaleneuro.bsky.social · Jul 8

Meet this week's #TraineeTuesday, Michael Hanna, PhD, @mike-hanna.bsky.social‬!
Mike is a postdoc in the @pdc-lab.bsky.social & will start as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State University in January 2026. Congratulations! [1/5]

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Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @kavliatyale.bsky.social · Jun 25

In a recent @natneuro.nature.com article, a team led by @yifeicai.bsky.social &‪ @jgrutzendler.bsky.social used protein tagging, mass spectrometry, & expansion microscopy 🔬to explore how the protein composition at the myelin-axon interface differs in Alzheimer's 🧪

To Understand Alzheimer’s Disease, Researchers Turn to Myelin Sheath

New protein and imaging analyses uncover abnormalities in the myelin sheath related to Alzheimer’s disease.

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