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Amanda Kentner

@mindfulrat.bsky.social

Just a mid-career behavioral neuroscientist ticking along, as long as the old heart keeps ticking. Developing #brains & #behavior with a side of #enrichment. Canadian in Boston MA | Posts and other reads are my own| #FirstGen http://www.kentnerlab.org

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The Microbiota Shapes Central Nervous System Myelination in Early Life
Really excited to see this paper out-A great cross-species collaboration with David Lyons, Edinburgh & Iiris Hovatta Helsinki.
Huge kudos to former PhD student Caoimhe Lynch et al advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

20.01.2026 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations Liz!!!

16.01.2026 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please repost and share widely - winter break is a perfect time to assemble application materials πŸ˜…

22.12.2025 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo listing the names of the victims of the Polytechnique MontrΓ©al massacre.

Photo listing the names of the victims of the Polytechnique MontrΓ©al massacre.

Today, we remember the fourteen young women whose lives were stolen at Polytechnique MontrΓ©al 36 years ago.

Their names are a solemn reminder of the devastating toll of gender-based violence β€” and the responsibility that comes with our remembrance.

06.12.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1647    πŸ” 438    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 35
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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!

05.12.2025 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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-...

22.11.2025 06:03 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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?

19.11.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Katie! 😊

18.11.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

18.11.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

18.11.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Tom! 😊

17.11.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

17.11.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, they are really cool!

17.11.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

17.11.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Zoe 😊

17.11.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

17.11.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

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 πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ scientific story that we are sending off for publication soon. #SfN2025

15.11.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

13.11.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 0
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Aurora in Boston right now

12.11.2025 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ok, Blue Jays, let’s play ball!

01.11.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Let’s go Blue Jays, let’s go!

31.10.2025 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations Meghan!!

22.10.2025 07:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The lateral habenula as a master regulator of innate and learned social behaviors

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

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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

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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

08.10.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a man 's face with the words `` trust me '' written on it ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words `` trust me '' written on it

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

08.10.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ChatGPT Goes Completely Haywire If You Ask It to Show You a Seahorse Emoji Asking OpenAI's ChatGPT if there's a seahorse emoji causesΒ 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 β€œis there a seahorse emoji?” futurism.com/chatgpt-hayw... it works, well, until it doesn’t…credit goes to my dad for this one!

08.10.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Europe PMCHome - Europe PMC Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.

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

07.10.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Big news at @npp-journal.bsky.social HQ πŸ‘‡

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

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

06.10.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2