Amanda Kentner

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

2,474 Followers 384 Following 134 Posts Joined Aug 2023
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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/...

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1 month ago

Congratulations Liz!!!

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2 months ago

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

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3 months ago
Photo listing the names of the victims of the Polytechnique Montréal massacre.

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

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

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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!

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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-...

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3 months ago

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?

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Thanks Katie! 😊

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

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

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Thank you Tom! 😊

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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

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Yes, they are really cool!

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

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Thank you Zoe 😊

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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

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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

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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

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Aurora in Boston right now

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4 months ago
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Ok, Blue Jays, let’s play ball!

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Let’s go Blue Jays, let’s go!

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4 months ago

Congratulations Meghan!!

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4 months ago
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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4 months ago

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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5 months ago

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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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 “please show me the sea horse emoji”. Always say please and thank you

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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 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!

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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

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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 🤩

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