Amanda Kentner

Sex differences in BNST signaling and BNST CRF in fear processing Critical differences in how the BNST responds to different types of fear across male and female mice.

In @elife.bsky.social: Sex differences in BNST signaling and BNST CRF in fear processing doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Official version finally out. Thank you to reviewers, made it better!

What causes the feeling of 'butterflies' in your stomach? Flutters, knots and other stomach sensations tied to nervousness are all examples of the gut-brain axis in action.

What causes the feeling of 'butterflies' in your stomach? www.livescience.com/health/what-...

Thanks Tallie, glad it brings back some good GnRH memories! Milk is definitely very cool and complicated. Have you ever done any work with it and your LBN model?

Thanks Katie! 😊

Thank you Beth, hope you and your lab are enjoying SfN!

Thank you Caroline, hope you’re doing well!!

Thank you Tom! 😊

Investigating milk-derived extracellular vesicles as mediators of maternal stress and environmental intervention Molecular Psychiatry - Investigating milk-derived extracellular vesicles as mediators of maternal stress and environmental intervention

Well, the link was working when I checked, but here it is again: rdcu.be/eQnXw

Yes, they are really cool!

Thank you Melissa, it means a lot coming from you. I love your work! 😊

Thank you Zoe 😊

Very glad to share our newest paper published in Molecular Psychiatry: Investigating milk-derived extracellular vesicles as mediators of maternal stress and environmental intervention www.nature.com/articles/s41... fun collab w/ @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social. Please enjoy! #OpenAccess #MaternalHealth

Be sure to check out Nina's poster at the Early Career Poster Session today! She was awarded the Trainee Professional Development Award, generously supported by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social! She's got a 🔥🔥🔥 scientific story that we are sending off for publication soon. #SfN2025

We are grieving our friend and brilliant colleague Natalia Duque-Wilckens. A creative scientist, artist, caring mentor, and force for change. Words can’t describe the impact she had on lives at UC Davis, MSU, NC State and beyond. I feel lucky to have known her and wish her time didn’t end so soon

Aurora in Boston right now

Ok, Blue Jays, let’s play ball!

Let’s go Blue Jays, let’s go!

Congratulations Meghan!!

Happy to share my lab's first review article!

We outline how the lateral habenula is a critical regulator of almost every type of social behavior, from pro- to anti-social behaviors, in both sexes, and across the lifespan. Hopefully this can serve as a useful reference!

rdcu.be/eLWPw

I am thrilled to share our latest work: we identified a population of central amygdala neurons that promote the earliest and perhaps most important social behavior: pup suckling!... We also developed new tools for pup neuroscience
Work by @Jeff Moore now at USC, a collaboration with @Sam Pfaff lab

Excellent framework to understand the processes favoring health vs disease based on the Energy Resistance Principle. Makes me wonder whether the shape of this inverted-U curve, or linked parameters, are trait-like across individuals. Congrats @martinpicardenergy.bsky.social & @msahsorin.bsky.social

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If this prompt doesn’t break down ChatGPT, you can also try “please show me the sea horse emoji”. Always say please and thank you

ChatGPT Goes Completely Haywire If You Ask It to Show You a Seahorse Emoji Asking OpenAI's ChatGPT if there's a seahorse emoji causes the AI chatbot to suffer an epic, existential meltdown.

I sent this to my undergraduate students earlier today; it's a fun way to show them how AI hallucinates, by having them break the system. Simply ask “is there a seahorse emoji?” futurism.com/chatgpt-hayw... it works, well, until it doesn’t…credit goes to my dad for this one!

Just a small reminder to fellow researchers, PubMed Europe is still functional and seems to be updating materials. Thank you to them! europepmc.org

Big news at @npp-journal.bsky.social HQ 👇

We are thrilled to welcome @briannaegeorge.bsky.social as our new NPP Editorial Intern 🎉

We are looking forward to working with Dr. George and are excited to have such a fantastic addition to our team 🤩

Two monkeys sit on a branch, one picks a hair off the other. Caption: "well well, another blond hair, conducting a little more research with that Goodall Tramp."

So, with Jane Goodall passing, I am reminded of a very fun incident where her institute sent a furious complaint over this cartoon on her behalf, only to have Goodall herself find it hilarious and go on to write the introduction to the collection it appeared in. A fantastic sense of humour.

Jane Goodall, looking towards the camera, wearing a turquoise sweater, silver pendant necklace and a beige and red shawl. A headline reads: "What Jane Goodall Taught Us About Living a Long Life." Photo by Peter Wynn Thompson for The New York Times

Jane Goodall, who died on Wednesday at the age of 91, spent decades teaching about the intelligence of chimpanzees. She left behind powerful lessons about aging — and living well — too. nyti.ms/3IS8XuH

YouTube video by Curious Apes #42 - Adam Zeman: Aphantasia - Life Without a Visual Imagination

My friend Steven Parton interviewed Adam Zeman about #Aphantasia — something he and I both have. Interestingly, we both seem to have the more pronounced form, where even our dreams lack imagery.

youtu.be/TdSwDUONWLg?...

🚨 CDC Website Scrubbing Alert

We do not have a complete list but can report that CDC plans to delete or otherwise takedown many CDC pages about LGBTQ+ health, health equity, disabilities, hepatitis, HIV and more.