Aroa Mañas-Ojeda

🚨We will soon be offering #NewPositions for lab technicians, research assistants and postdocs, to join us in #Coimbra, Portugal
If interested in investigating the neural circuits of #SocialCognition in rats, contact us!
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dynabrain.cnc.uc.pt
@caixaresearch.bsky.social
@fct_pt

09.07.2025 12:05 — 👍 21    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 3

The heat won’t stop the energy — science (and fans!) in full swing!
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#EBBS2025

28.06.2025 14:47 — 👍 33    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 2

It has been a wonderful experience attending #MNS2025 in lovely Crete to participate in a symposium of stress, sharing table and discussions with amazing scientists. And thanks to the scientific committee for the presentation award, I am very grateful ☺️ looking forward to the next conference!

12.06.2025 23:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is figure 2, which shows social disadvantage and risk of diseases associated with hallmarks of aging.

People with social disadvantage, during both early and later life, have an increased risk of 66 age-related diseases mediated by 14 age-related proteins, according to a paper in Nature Medicine. https://go.nature.com/4ifgD6T #Medsky 🧪

19.03.2025 19:32 — 👍 28    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to present the latest from the lab out today in Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex.... See Thread! 1/8

04.03.2025 16:34 — 👍 210    🔁 62    💬 8    📌 5

Atypical hippocampal excitatory neurons express and govern object memory - Nature Communications Pyramidal cells are classically thought to comprise the excitatory output of the subiculum. Here, the authors show the existence of “ovoid cells”, excitatory subiculum neurons with specialized gene ex...

delighted to share our work revealing a new type of excitatory hippocampal neuron we call the "ovoid cell", which has really exquisite properties relative to adjacent pyramidal cells! superb work of first-author @adriennekinman.bsky.social and many others in the lab

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

13.02.2025 18:38 — 👍 126    🔁 45    💬 9    📌 6

Hippocampus shapes entorhinal cortical output through a direct feedback circuit - Nature Neuroscience Distinct hippocampal feedback pathways to deep and superficial layers of the cortex in mice differentially modulate excitation–inhibition dynamics, plasticity and cognitive behavioral output.

Distinct hippocampal feedback pathways to deep and superficial layers of the cortex in mice differentially modulate excitation-inhibition dynamics, plasticity, and cognitive behavioral output 🧪🧠

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

19.02.2025 14:24 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Developmentally distinct architectures in top–down pathways controlling threat avoidance - Nature Neuroscience Through circuit dissection in juvenile, adolescent and adult mice, Klune, Goodpaster and colleagues reveal multiple developmental switches in mPFC–NAc and mPFC–BLA pathways that underlie developmental...

Multiple developmental switches in mPFC-NAc and mPFC-BLA pathways that underlie developmental transitions in threat avoidance behavior revealed by circuit dissection in juvenile, adolescent and adult mice mice 🧪🧠

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

20.02.2025 16:10 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

Acute stress activates basolateral amygdala neurons expressing corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor type 1 (CRHR1): Topographical distribution and projection-specific activation in male and female... Although the basolateral amygdala (BLA) and corticotropin releasing hormone receptor type I (CRHR1) signaling are both central to the stress response,…

New lab paper in collaboration with Nick Gilpin's lab.

We examined the distribution of CRHR1 expressing neurons within the basolateral amygdala, their integration in circuits emanating to NAc and CeA and their reactivity to stress. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

14.12.2024 16:07 — 👍 75    🔁 22    💬 3    📌 1

This is why representation matters. This is why programs that support women in STEM (or any male dominated space) is important. I wish more men had this perspective and respect for their female peers.

And yes, it’s a real letter: www.today.com/today/amp/td...

#WomenInSTEM #RepresentationMatters

22.11.2024 19:57 — 👍 228    🔁 69    💬 6    📌 6

Very excited to share my first PhD work from @NESTLab_UJI !🥳We find sex-specific differences in response to early-life stress regarding social and aggressive behaviors and a key role of SST+ neurons in the amygdala👇Thanks to all the team but especially to my PhD supervisor @neuroesther.bsky.social

27.11.2024 10:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1