David Smith

Short-term social isolation acts on hypothalamic neurons to promote social behavior in a sex- and context-dependent manner A population of neurons in the hypothalamus promotes social behaviors in female mice following a period of short-term social isolation.

Very happy to share the newest work from our lab, led by postdoc @xinzhao322.bsky.social, with help from many past and present undergrad RAs.

elifesciences.org/articles/94924

YouTube video by AAMCtoday Understanding the Real Costs of Research

Institutions already subsidize IDCs at a high rate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzNc...

And in a lot more depth:
www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...

Sincerely some of the best years of my life! I know not everybody has that experience, but I loved it. Loved my postdoc years too.

Kind of an old school behavioral neuroscience study. Retrosplenial lesions cause a delay dependent impairment in alternation and retrosplenial neurons fire throughout the delay period, selectively for left or right trials (a potential working memory signal).

For my first post, I'll share The Retrosplenial Cortical Role in Delayed Spatial Alternation from my student Dev Subramanian (not here yet).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...