Navjot Kaur

Psychedelics muddy fMRI results: Q&A with Adam Bauer and Jonah Padawer-Curry The drugs disrupt the link between vascular and neuronal activity, which complicates interpretations of fMRI data. Adopting a more holistic view of what constitutes brain activity may help…

Psychedelics disrupt the link between vascular and neuronal activity, which complicates interpretations of fMRI data. Adopting a more holistic view of what constitutes brain activity may help.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...

Corporate support cannot make up for threats to the NIH budget The privatization of medical research can’t replace what the NIH has provided.

Pharmaceutical industry money can’t replace NIH funding | STAT share.google/iZfAlSgXeIR3...
#BasicScience #NIH #NSF #NASA #JOBS #RESEARCHFUNDING #RESEARCHMATTERS #InnovationNation #AmericaFirst

How Jane Goodall changed the way we see animals - and the world Jane Goodall, who chronicled the social lives of chimps, has died, but has left a lasting legacy on how we view the natural world

How Jane Goodall changed the way we see animals - and the world by @rowhoop.bsky.social for @newscientist.com

www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

Transcriptomic diversity of amygdalar subdivisions across humans and nonhuman primates Specialized cell types and links to psychiatric disorders are revealed by genetic mapping of primate amygdala neurons.

A spatially resolved transcriptomic atlas of the primate amygdala (human, macaque, and baboon) now out in Science Advances (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). The amygdala contains 32 types of neurons with many neuron types specific to particular subdivisions.

Lots of updates from the preprint!

Transcriptomic diversity of amygdalar subdivisions across humans and nonhuman primates Specialized cell types and links to psychiatric disorders are revealed by genetic mapping of primate amygdala neurons.

Very excited to share my second postdoc, now out in Science Advances! We used targeted snRNA-seq to profile four major subnuclei of the primate across three species (including humans). 1/13 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats Vinny!

Beautiful work out from Sestan lab!!

After Purging Key Vaccine Panel, RFK Jr. Moves to Assert Control The HHS chief went on Fox News to repeatedly lie about vaccines and the members of an advisory committee he recently purged.

Asked about his decision to fire the entire vaccine advisory committee of the CDC, RFK Jr. asserted that "children get between 69 and 92 vaccines before they’re 18," among other lies.

Fact check: the number is closer to between 24 and 50.
https://trib.al/uUQLOgI

A wave of emotion Sustained brainwide patterns of activity enable emotions to outlast their triggers

A wave of emotion | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Just published, expansion in situ genome sequencing, where you can sequence DNA while still inside the cell, mapping its organization relative to proteins and other markers, with the help of expansion microscopy! Led by @jbuenrostro.bksy.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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!

Excited to showcase as a co-first author our latest work "Adaptive Evolution of Gene Regulatory Networks in Mammalian Neocortical Neurons "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.20.652233v1

Day 25 (a need): Psychiatric conditions are diagnosed based on symptoms rather than biological tests like brain scans or blood tests.

We do not yet know enough about what's happening in the brain of someone experiencing a depressive episode or psychosis to create such a test.

#ElusiveCures30

Einstein:
Scientists should not be silent about human affairs.

Science shouldn’t be partisan, but scientists should embrace values that improve humanity.

Science affects people and the people — humanity — affect science.

YouTube video by The London Standard London black cabs beat AI to show 'genius of human mind' ...The Standard podcast

Podcast interview with me about spatial planning in London taxi drivers: youtube.com/watch?v=6gUR...

NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.

In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide.

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Current Directions in Psychological Science article entitled More Than Just a Phase: Adolescence as a Window Into How the Brain Generates Behavior

Excited to share this brief review where @katieinsel.bsky.social & I discuss studying adolescence to understand how brains work! We highlight avenues for future collaborative work at the intersection of cognitive, computational, & developmental neuroscience 🧠
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

When you've been in the cell culture hood all day and finally get to take off your gloves:

2025 Brain Prize honors pair of cancer neuroscientists Michelle Monje and Frank Winkler share the $1.4 million award for their discovery of synapses between brain cancer cells and neurons.

@michellemonje.bsky.social at @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social and Frank Winkler at Heidelberg University have won the 2025 @brainprize.bsky.social from the Lundbeck Foundation for their work in cancer neuroscience.

By @sydneywyatt.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/community/20...

Sensory input, sex and function shape hypothalamic cell type development - Nature Paired transcriptomic and chromatin accessibility profiling are used to examine the developmental trajectories of neuronal populations in the hypothalamic preoptic region, including cell types with ke...

I’m excited to share our publication from @dulaclab.bsky.social in @nature.com, where we illuminate the development of hypothalamic cell types involved in a broad range of functions, from social behaviors to thirst, thermoregulation, and sleep. Highlights below! 🧵

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

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

It continues to get worse. We can’t breathe a sigh of relief because it isn’t MY grant. We all risk being on the chopping block. Not even to mention the severe detriment to science, society, etc. 😢

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Biological subtyping of autism via cross-species fMRI It is frequently assumed that the phenotypic heterogeneity in autism spectrum disorder reflects underlying pathobiological variation. However, direct evidence in support of this hypothesis is lacking....

New work by @gozziale.bsky.social on the phenotypic heterogeneity in autism spectrum disorder and underlying processes, with two major subtypes—hypo- & hyper-connectivity—linked to synaptic dysfunction transcriptional regulation/chromatin remodeling, respectively 🧪🧠🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Poor old Pavlov. Eventually every time he heard a bell ring he wanted to feed a dog.

So.

It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year.

I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

🧪🧠

Experts Call NIH Budget Cuts an 'Apocalypse' for Science The reductions target indirect costs that cover administrative and equipment costs.

I have been talking to the media, Time, Fortune, NBC, etc., to explain how the onslaught on science and NIH will impact the health of all Americans. Everyone knows someone who has cancer, heart disease, or depression. Spread the word about how cutting science impacts all.
time.com/7216299/nih-...

Constrained roads to complex brains Neural development and brain circuit evolution converged in birds and mammals

Constrained roads to complex brains
Neural development and brain circuit evolution converged in birds and mammals

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Amazing work!

First-in-human study of epidural spinal cord stimulation in individuals with spinal muscular atrophy - Nature Medicine Improved muscle function, strength and fatigue measures were observed after electrical spinal cord stimulation in individuals with spinal muscular atrophy.

Hello BlueSky world! This might sound crazy but today we publish in @natureMedicine a paper showing that neurostimulation can revert motoneuron dysfunction produced by a neurodegenerative disease!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is really sad! 50% of population is women. Just putting a little rationality in perspective that thinking of having healthy human future and produce more healthy kids without investing in women health is plain stupidity.