Very interesting!

In defense of emotions 🧠❤️

bsky.app/profile/town... #joy #emotion

#LivingArchitectures
We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay.
www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev...
Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night.
-> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.

I’ve been rethinking of emotion as something like ~the dynamic, emergent subjective experience of sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric nervous system integration.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ (With the latter trying to get at the gut feeling, more interceptive aspect). WIP

Reminds me of the interesting feedback connectivity from amygdala to V1

Fantastic, interesting work. Congratulations!

👏 Congratulations!

Congratulations! And go smart Penn decisions 🎉🍾

Same! Well-received and invited to suggest special issues going forward of particular interest 🤗

**How do we make long-lasting emotional memories**
Looks very interesting.
#neuroskyence
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Spinal motor neurons in dazzling detail. ✨

Each green dot is a spinal motor neuron - crucial but rare cells making up just 1% of neurons in the spinal cord. In diseases like ALS, they are selectively damaged, making them of special interest to neuroscientists.

#neuroskyence #FluorescenceFriday

Frontiers | Imaging joy with generalized slice dithered enhanced resolution and SWAT reconstruction: 3T high spatial–temporal resolution fMRI To facilitate high spatial–temporal resolution fMRI (≦1mm3) at more broadly available field strengths (3T) and to better understand the neural underpinnings ...

Excited to see more research on joy! We did a small pilot study trying to image joy in high resolution with less distortion at 3T (Fig 4): www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

Moving from isolation to integration: a Bayesian multisensory perspective of interoception and psychosis Neuropsychopharmacology - Moving from isolation to integration: a Bayesian multisensory perspective of interoception and psychosis

This recent ✨ Early Career Commentary ✨ makes the case that interoception - the sensing & interpretation of internal bodily signals - should be studied within a Bayesian multisensory framework

Mind captioning: Evolving descriptive text of mental content from human brain activity Nonverbal thoughts can be translated into verbal descriptions by aligning semantic representations between text and the brain.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @hkt52.bsky.social Wonderful work again!

Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human allostatic–interoceptive system using 7 Tesla fMRI - Nature Neuroscience The brain is constantly monitoring the systems in the body. Here the authors use 7 Tesla functional magnetic resonance imaging to map a large-scale brain system for body regulation in humans, includin...

Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human allostatic–interoceptive system using 7 Tesla fMRI

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

The neural bases of social pain: Evidence for shared representations with physical pain Experiences of social rejection or loss have been described as some of the most ‘painful’ experiences that we, as humans, face and perhaps for good reason. Because of our prolonged period of immaturit...

Also reminds me of this social/physical pain work pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Amygdala–liver signalling orchestrates glycaemic responses to stress - Nature Studies in mice show that acute stress activates hyperglycaemia via activation of a medial amygdala–ventral hypothalamic circuit that controls glucose metabolic responses in the liver, independently of adrenal and pancreatic hormones.

Nature research paper: Amygdala–liver signalling orchestrates glycaemic responses to stress

go.nature.com/4m2rH8t

2/2 For more insula fun, I really like Fermin et al. 2022 (doi.org/10.1098/rsos...) and this review (med.stanford.edu/content/dam/...)

Thanks for bringing up the insula, a fascinating interoceptive emotion hub that deserves more attention. In the brief report, I was focused primarily on seeing joy in the amygdala, a region I’ve been long fascinated with. But the same imaging principle absolutely applies to the insula. 1/2

Frontiers | Imaging joy with generalized slice dithered enhanced resolution and SWAT reconstruction: 3T high spatial–temporal resolution fMRI To facilitate high spatial–temporal resolution fMRI (≦1mm3) at more broadly available field strengths (3T) and to better understand the neural underpinnings ...

Love to see the Joy! Curious if you’ll see juicy left amygdala (BLA especially) as well during those moments. www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

Frontiers | Imaging joy with generalized slice dithered enhanced resolution and SWAT reconstruction: 3T high spatial–temporal resolution fMRI To facilitate high spatial–temporal resolution fMRI (≦1mm3) at more broadly available field strengths (3T) and to better understand the neural underpinnings ...

Congrats! Welcome to the endlessly interesting and complicated world of emotion research. Just came out w a little Joy study to contribute to the lit. May the next decade bring more brain research to help patients www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

#emotion #fMRI #mesoscale #affectivescience #Joy

Frontiers | Imaging joy with generalized slice dithered enhanced resolution and SWAT reconstruction: 3T high spatial–temporal resolution fMRI To facilitate high spatial–temporal resolution fMRI (≦1mm3) at more broadly available field strengths (3T) and to better understand the neural underpinnings ...

www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu... Bringing Joy to the neuroimaging world: our paper is out today demonstrating proof of concept novel spin-echo based fMRI technique gSlider-SWAT for imaging whole brain at 1mm³ 3T, including amygdala and OFC. Looking forward to continued innovations in the field!

How the brain spies on the gut: with help from newfound immune cells The body’s pathogen fighters can act as surveillance forces that ferry information from the gut and fat deposits to the brain.

Pathogen fighters can act as surveillance forces that ferry information from the gut and fat deposits to the brain

https://go.nature.com/4kip5mR

An epithelial cell videoed through a microscope. #CellBiology

A heart muscle cell (cardiac myocyte) photographed through a microscope. Actin filaments are shown. #CellBiology

Congratulations 🎉

Wonderful work!

My med school textbook says stimulants like Ritalin treat hyperactivity by “stimulating” the brain’s attention and cognitive control systems. We studied children taking stimulants in the ABCD Study, and the largest differences were actually in arousal and reward networks! Check out our preprint!