Abha Karki Rajbhandari, PhD

It was so fun sharing with Equinox about the importance of heart health for brain health. Brain-body connections are critical for health, well-being and vitality ✨ #brainbody. Thank you for sharing @sinaibrain.bsky.social

Academic path isn’t easy, but the joy of discovery, finding possibilities for healing and mentoring trainees keeps me going. Celebrating submitting two manuscripts on brain–body stress interactions & a master’s thesis defense. Grateful to my lab & special thanks to @neuromanonyc.bsky.social 🙏✨

I'm thrilled to share that our new paper is now published in Psychophysiology (Open Access):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social

Title: Understanding Brain-Body Interactions to Advance Brain Health: A Workshop. Photo: picture of a transparent person with brain and nervous system illuminated.

Save the date 📆. On Oct 22/23, @nationalacademies.org will hold a stellar virtual workshop on brain/body interations (open to all).

www.nationalacademies.org/en/our-work/...

So amazing that our graduate student Sanutha Shetty presented her work on the role of #breathing circuits on stress-related cardiometabolic outcomes at the Cardiovascular Research Institute Retreat and won a best trainee talk award! @sinaibrain.bsky.social 🙌

William James saw the brain as a filter of bodily signals shaping thought, memory and emotion. That psychological processes require bodily input, brain processing and then action. A century later, science has come full circle to this same mind–body insight! #mindbodyconnection

Nepal stands at a new turning point and a bold new chapter. With its first female Prime Minister and a parliament dissolved by the youth to form a new government against corruption and inequality, this moment is exemplary! Hopeful for Nepal. 🙏

Thrilled to receive the NoA for an R35 grant from NIGMS to study brain–heart communication under stress! Despite challenging times, grateful to @NIH for funding our work and to @scottrussophd.bsky.social, @EricJNestler, @filswirski.bsky.social @mcalpinelab.bsky.social and @Paul Kenny for support.

Miami is hiring a neurobiologist! I am excited to welcome a new colleague to our Neuroscience community! Please share!

miamioh.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/miamio...

Dissemblance in either or combination of these also play a contributing role to many chronic dis-eases!

As much as we focus on dis-ease, why do we not focus on research on true health/vitality/wellbeing also including Nutrition (nourishment from whole and/or plant foods), Movement (body and breath)🏃🏻‍♀️, Connection (nature, others and Self) and Rest (sleep, meditation)?🧘‍♀️. Much science pointing to these!

Call for papers: Brain-immune-vascular interface in dementia

Neurons are cool, but do you work with something cooler and understudied like the Blood-Brain Barrier? As a Guest Editor, I invite you to submit manuscripts focused on the Brain-Immune-Vascular interface for NPJ Dementia! More info at www.nature.com/collections/...
#Neuroscience #Alzheimer

Online now: Semaglutide effects on energy balance are mediated by Adcyap1+ neurons in the dorsal vagal complex

Hippocampal ensembles regulate circuit-induced relapse of extinguished fear Molecular Psychiatry - Hippocampal ensembles regulate circuit-induced relapse of extinguished fear

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 Inactivation of the nucleus reuniens causes relapse of extinguished fear. Here we show this “circuit-induced relapse” depends on hippocampal fear memories and is mediated by hippocampal engrams. Congrats to the team!

Just published our study on brain-heart interactions and COVID-19. We found that brain-heart interactions at the ICU onset indexes mortality risk and acute encephalopathy duration. We also found that maladaptive dynamics are associated with acute cognitive impairment 👾

So glad to contribute to the @sinaibrain.bsky.social newsletter on #metabolism, #vagusnerve and #brainbodyhealth! Check out the emerging research on the brain and body interactions!

The Brain-Body Research Institute @IcahnMountSinai is hiring an Associate Director to build clinical and translational research in brain-body sciences. See ad here: neuroscience.mssm.edu/pdf/Brain-Bo.... @sinaibrain.bsky.social @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social @brainbodylab.bsky.social

A great opportunity!

Sahay lab (www.sahaylab.com) is seeking applications for a 10 week long summer research internship from undergraduates (US Citizen/ F1 Visa holder) for 2 Center for Curiosity funded "Curiosity Scholars in Neuroscience”. 1/n

Autonomic physiological coupling of the global fMRI signal - Nature Neuroscience The brain and body are necessarily connected. Here the authors show that brain blood flow and electrical activity are coupled with systemic physiological changes in the body.

Autonomic physiological coupling of the global fMRI signal www.nature.com/articles/s41... "The global fMRI signal is a substantial component of the arousal response governed by the autonomic nervous system."

Aren’t mental and physical health bi-directionally connected and in a continuum at every level of nutrition, environment, energy, movement, rest, stressors etc? Why is there an arbitrary boundary between mental and physical health? 🤔 #brainbody

Very sorry to hear this.

How to fix a gut microbime ravaged by antibiotics A diet rich in diverse carbohydrates outperforms faecal transplants in mice at restoring microbial diversity, which has been linked to a range of health conditions.

A diet rich in diverse carbohydrates outperforms faecal transplants in mice at restoring microbial diversity, which has been linked to a range of health conditions.

https://go.nature.com/3EM8U1u

Sometimes, even amidst the chaos and uncertainty, there is something to be grateful for 🙏🏽 #mindbody

We are delighted to announce the appointment of @paulkennyphd.bsky.social, the Ward-Coleman Professor in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and Chair of #NashNeuroscience, as Interim Director of The #FriedmanBrainInstitute.

🎉💯 Please join us in offering a huge congratulations to Dr. Kenny!

If memory is constantly evolving, can you reshape your past, not by erasing it, but by understanding and reframing it? In See Memory, painter Viviane Silvera uses art to explore memory and #PTSD. NOT TO MISS! Learn More About & Stream "See Memory", the Film www.pbs.org/video/see-me...

A drop of milkshake takes a wild ride as it passes through the body. Rachel and Kiersten and the team came up with cool strategies for visualizing food passing through the mouse GI tract and mapping the activity of the same 100s of brainstem neurons across weeks during feeding and other behaviors.

In the growing age of AI, conflicts, divisions, separation, ego etc, it is humbling to be able to contemplate what it is to be a human, our natural intelligence, to have awareness, our ability of compassion and consciousness 🙏🏽

Incredible to see growing science on yogā-postures, breathwork, and meditation— for brain injury, metabolism, pain, reproductive health, pregnancy etc at Neuroscience and Yogā conference.
Ancient interoceptive wisdom on body, mind, thought awareness is holistic medicine!

Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses - Nature Cold-sensitive engrams contribute to learned thermoregulation in mice that are returned to an environment in which they previously experienced a cold challenge, through a network formed betw...

Excited to share our new study:

"Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses"

by @andreamunozz.bsky.social, @aaron-douglas.bsky.social & team at @tcddublin.bsky.social, in collaboration with @lydialynch.bsky.social & @drchristineannd.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...