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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Aaron! 🫶🏼

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 2d

First lab paper out today! Student authors: Mikayla Cutler and Abhi Thati 🎉🤩

Hippocampus | Neuroscience Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Memory is a cornerstone of human behavior, and addiction offers a compelling model of its persistence and plasticity. The scope of engram research has rapidly expanded to include addiction-related ph....

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · 4d

How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions: Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

How prediction error drives memory updating: role of locus coeruleus–hippocampal interactions

The brain constantly generates predictions based on one’s knowledge of the world, as captured in memory. When these predictions are in error, our knowledge base must be revised to remain relevant. Her...

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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · 20d

Stimulus‐Dependent Dopamine Dynamics from Locus Coeruleus Axons
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Stimulus‐Dependent Dopamine Dynamics from Locus Coeruleus Axons

Arousal is essential for survival, and maladaptive arousal processing leads to an inability to focus, anxiety‐like behavior, and dysregulated affective states. Norepinephrine (NE) is known to regulate...

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · Jul 31

Wondering whether anyone is willing to contribute short videos for my methods class. The ones I already have are fantastic and so well-received in my class that I’d like to expand this. Looking for TMS, fMRI, EEG, PET - short video of you explaining the method showing the tech. Thank you!!! 🙏

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · Jul 29

Awesome thank you!

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · Jul 29

Has anyone tried the primary antibody: Chicken anti-c-Fos (226009 SySy)? Happy with it?

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · Jun 27

We're hiring! Loyola University Chicago seeks a full-time, non‑tenure‑track Instructor in Psychology/Neuroscience for Fall 2025. For full consideration apply by July 11 www.careers.luc.edu/postings/33099. Message if you have questions.
#AcademicJobs

Psychology, Instructor (One-year, Temporary), Non-Tenure Track

Salary Range: $60,000- $65,000Benefits Information: https://www.luc.edu/hr/benefits/The Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago seeks qualified candid...

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · Jun 15

Thank you so much!! Hope you’re doing well!

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · Jun 15

And this pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10845072/

Neuronal coding of prediction errors - PubMed

Associative learning enables animals to anticipate the occurrence of important outcomes. Learning occurs when the actual outcome differs from the predicted outcome, resulting in a prediction error. Ne...

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · Jun 15

Can someone please please send me this pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7704620/

Mesolimbic dopaminergic neurons innervating the hippocampal formation in the rat: a combined retrograde tracing and immunohistochemical study - PubMed

A major mesolimbic projection towards the hippocampal formation (HF) has been extensively described, but no clear evidence of its dopaminergic content has been demonstrated. In order to evaluate the p...

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · May 10

Congratulations! 🎉

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · May 5

Hotel Reverie is one of my favourite Black Mirror episodes! 🍸🌙

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · Apr 29

♥️🤍♥️

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · Apr 22

Me listening to Alice Cooper’s School’s Out on the way to teach my last class

a couple of muppets giving the horns sign with their hands

Alt: a couple of muppets giving the horns sign with their hands

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · Apr 18

Ahhhh so excited!!! My super star student Aasri Tulluri has been awarded the very prestigious William and June Pizzi Award!! ⭐️

a little girl wearing sunglasses is dancing in a hallway and says `` yay happy dance '' .

Alt: a little girl wearing sunglasses is dancing in a hallway and says `` yay happy dance '' .

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · Apr 17

Lab members presenting at WSE! ✨🙌✨

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Kari Hoffman @karihoffman.bsky.social · Apr 15

How does the brain integrate information from new experiences while preserving established memories? Have a look at our latest preprint,
"Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques" 🧵
🧪🧠🤖👩‍🔬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques

Memory formation requires neural activity reorganization during experience that persists in sleep. How these processes promote learning while preserving established memories remains unclear. We record...

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Stephanie L. Grella, PhD @sgrella.bsky.social · Apr 15

Congratulations to two of my students who have been named Mulcahy Fellows again this year! William (Billy) Wade and Aasrita (Aasri) Tulluri! 🎉👏

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · Apr 14

A map of part of a mouse brain, which is expected to be generalisable to people, could help scientists understand behaviours, consciousness and even what it means to be human

Largest mammalian brain map ever could unpick what makes us human

A map of part of a mouse brain, which is expected to be generalisable to people, could help scientists understand behaviours, consciousness and even what it means to be human

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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · Apr 14

“If you have a broken radio and you have the circuit diagram, you’ll be in a better position to fix it.” - Nuno da Costa

Thank you @b0yle.bsky.social for sharing our publication of the most complete map yet of the brain's wiring and activity in @geekwire.com!

🧠📈 www.geekwire.com/2025/brain-m...

Scientists unveil new wiring diagram tracing millions of connections in a bit of brain tissue

Researchers say they have mapped more than 200,000 cells in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and have traced how they're all connected.

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Paul Jenkins @pjenkinslab.bsky.social · Apr 14

JOB ALERT: Teaching-focused assistant professor position at Michigan State University. Full-time, fixed-term position to teach in the undergraduate Neuroscience program with some excellent colleagues! Postdoc not required! Details here: careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor-FixedTerm - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Position Summary The Department of Physiology (PSL) at Michigan State University (MSU) seeks an engaging Assistant Professor with a strong interest in undergraduate education who is trained in neurosc...

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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · Apr 13

This is such an important thread for academics on the tenure clock AND those of us who will be in positions to evaluate tenure dossiers in the coming years. We simply cannot hold people up to the standards of better times.

Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · Apr 13

Here's is my experience from the financial crisis of 2008 (and Covid). Even though the whole way we are doing and funding science has changed significantly, people's shortcuts for determining whether or not you are "succeeding" will take longer to recalibrate. /1

Joao Pereira @jdpereira.bsky.social · Apr 13

I wonder, for those of us on a tenure clock, how will this situation factor in?

We’re not playing the same game we set out to play.

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