Abha Karki Rajbhandari, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow-MSH-13400-363 in New York, NY | Mount Sinai Health Systems Mount Sinai is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow-MSH-13400-363 in New York, NY. Review all of the job details and apply today!

📣We are hiring! 📣 
Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher to study brain–body interactions uncovering how neural and physiological systems regulate behavior and energy metabolism under stress!

Details are below:
📩 abha.rajbhandari@mssm.edu
🔗 careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/3032214

Yes and such a good communicator no? Thank you Martin 🙏

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives…. on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”

-the Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan ✨🌏

NEW STUDY! Building on pioneering work by Dr. Alison Goate, an international team of researchers, led by #IcahnMountSinai's Anne Schaefer, ID'd distinct population of neuroprotective #Microglia that may point to new therapeutic approach for #Alzheimers. @nature.com 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yayy celebrating with Nepali food is the way to go 🙏

Does pounding of your heart makes you feel afraid, or does the feeling of fear cause your heart to race?

The Cannon-Bard and James-Lange theories have shaped a century of debate about emotion and physiology.

Biologically, the brain and body dialogue is dynamic, continuous, and bi-directional!

Some spiritual traditions believe the 'self' as a coherent, enduring entity to be an illusion, there is also a tangible 'bodily self' that forms the basis of this notion through somatosensation.

Fascinating Primer by Pattrick Haggard and @mattlongo.bsky.social

www.cell.com/current-biol...

The blood–brain barrier Here, Audrey Chagnot and Axel Montagne discuss the structural and functional features of the blood–brain barrier and the association of its disruption with various pathologies.

The #brain is often viewed as rather separate from the rest of body. One way it is separated somewhat is the BBB — the blood-brain-barrier.

Fabulous primer by @axelmontagne.bsky.social and Audrey Chagnot

www.cell.com/current-biol...

#NeuroJobs

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Postdoctoral Fellow-MSH-13400-363 in New York, NY | Mount Sinai Health Systems Mount Sinai is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow-MSH-13400-363 in New York, NY. Review all of the job details and apply today!

📣We are hiring! 📣 
Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher to study brain–body interactions uncovering how neural and physiological systems regulate behavior and energy metabolism under stress!

Details are below:
📩 abha.rajbhandari@mssm.edu
🔗 careers.mountsinai.org/jobs/3032214

Happy Diwali 🪔. So amazing 🤩

This Lancet Neurology article emphasizes that lifestyle interventions like physical activity, nutrition, sleep quality and stress management are important for symptom management and disease modification in Parkinson’s disease.

Lifestyle is not just fringe!

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

"The way forward has become very clear"- Dr. Brendan G. Carr
A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to @ericjnestler.bsky.social named Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine. We’re thrilled about the exciting new direction Icahn Mount Sinai will take under Dr. Nestler's visionary leadership!

Oxytocin modulates respiratory heart rate variability through a hypothalamus–brainstem–heart neuronal pathway - Nature Neuroscience Buron et al. show that oxytocin enhances heart rate variability linked to breathing during recovery from stress. This calming and cardio-protective effect is produced through a hypothalamus–brainstem ...

A hypothalamus-brainstem-heart circuit regulated by oxytocin on heart rate variability. Another cool brain-body work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Such a nice collection of brain-body interaction articles in the special issue of @currentbiology.bsky.social. Love the beautiful vagus nerve on the cover by Andreas Vesalius www.cell.com/current-biol...

Sickness and the brain Zuri Sullivan and Catherine Dulac discuss the reciprocal communication between the brain and the immune system in sickness behavior.

Our Primer on Sickness and the Brain: how are inflammatory signals and the brain coordinate to make us sick?
in the new issue of Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
together with @Zuri A. Sullivan

Happy #Diwali to all who celebrate! First public school holiday in NYC. 🪔✨

Diwali reminds us to shine our inner light, illuminating wisdom and dispelling the darkness of ego, division, and ignorance.

In Nepal, during Diwali the friendship and love of dogs is also celebrated.

Amazing work by @jun and team 🙌

Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
#neuroskyence

Galnt2 neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus counterregulate hypoglycemia via a brain-liver neurocircuit Wang et al. reveal a biphasic counterregulatory response to hypoglycemia mediated by a threshold-dependent brain-liver neurocircuit that directly senses neuroglycopenia. Within this pathway, Galnt2 acts as a molecular brake in ventromedial hypothalamic glucose-inhibited neurons, tuning their glucose perception and modulating hepatic glucose production.

Online now: Galnt2 neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamus counterregulate hypoglycemia via a brain-liver neurocircuit

It is #WorldMentalHealthDay and been reflecting that mental health is a whole #brainbody ecosystem shaped by how we eat, sleep, connect, move, move, and live.

Science and ancient wisdom agree: we can’t separate mind, body, or environment. Healing begins where biology meets connection. 🙏

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. 🙏