We are really thrilled to host this joint open special issue with among the two journals @mathiasvschmidt.bsky.social
We are very interested to receive your best research at the intersection between stress, health and aging.
Details here lnkd.in/dGfV24ex
and in the linkedin post z.umn.edu/b971
👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏
Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.
Storm with his best impression of puss n boots
Quotes from the amazing neurologist Dr Silke Cresswell-Appel from UBC. MIND diet has stronger effects in women on reduction in PD risk.
I hope you acknowledged the NSERC reviewers…. 😂
Super cool! The two hit thing .. we see same resilience in another model too.
Excited to share the latest one from the lab led by José Solano @jolusolo.bsky.social who explored how early life #stress impacts the mouse 🐭 brain 🧠 vasculature
Science 🧪🔬 can be surprising & 2x stress can induce beneficial adaptations leading to resilience, phew!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Our new paper (with Siemens Healthcare) showing how to rapidly design patient-specific pTx RF pulses to make lower-SAR homogeneous diagnostic-quality 7T SPACE and FLAIR MR images. Special thanks to all my NSERC reviewers who said this wouldn’t work 😉. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
HHS wants to move "away from reliable contraception & toward counseling men on erectile dysfunction, testosterone levels and sperm motility, each of which merits 3 mentions in the new guidance, while IUDs & birth control pills earn none." @jillfilipovic.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
Stupidly I decided to change up my next talk (which is in 24 h) & it’s so much work and I don’t have time to do the topic justice. So progress today on talk: 5% progress on cleaning my LAUNDRY room 100%.
Join us Monday, April 20th to listen to an exciting talk from Professor Liisa Galea on "Sex-Specific Neuroimmune Pathways from Depression to Neurodegeneration" followed by a Q&A session!🧪
@kingsioppn.bsky.social @liisagalea.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/42d7yF7
📅 Mon 20th April
🕔 4:00 PM GMT
Expansion microscopy image of perineuronal nets (unpublished).
1/ 97% of cortical PNNs are on PV interneurons. But PNN-positive and PNN-negative PV cells don't split into two groups — they sit at different ends of a transcriptional continuum of fast-spiking specialization. New preprint 🧵
There is also an increase in MAOA in perimenopausal people. (Another time point of fluctuating E2)
Blues Away showed efficacy to reduce CESD scores up to 6 months postpartum!
Up next was an RCT to see Blues away affects (which was run during COVID). Still they followed people for 6 months after giving birth. Supplement even more successful with greater blues.
So knowing this can you do a dietary intervention? Yes enter Blues Away! Oral tryptophan does not change breast milk levels of tryptophan or tyrosine.
There is a relationship between estrogens and MAO. Huge drops in estrogens in early postpartum. At the same time you see elevated MAOA binding by 40%!!! Seminal work by @cogneuroend.bsky.social and Jeff Meyer!
Postpartum depressive episodes are 13% of birthing parents. What about MAO? More MAOA using PET imaging in MDD. How does it relate to PPD?
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Starting now!
Join us as we share highlights from today's talk by Dr. Jeffrey Meyer from @camhnews.bsky.social! He will be sharing his latest work on using PET #neuroimaging to study #postpartum #depression and #anorexia nervosa 🔍
If this holds, Tisza now has a supermajority.
90% in
Fun fact: Michelle Obama and Jill Biden never had to hold a press conference to deny being part of a sex trafficking ring
A reminder of Banksy at his best, this mural was obliterated by the legal establishment. Can’t imagine why.
Pledging allegiance to ice hockey and poutine has never been easier.
Last year, the Canadian government amended the Citizenship Act to grant Canadian citizenship to a wider pool of people seeking dual citizenship through their family lineage. https://wapo.st/4cfYOTg
Not the main point here, but I do not ever recall a federal agency making significant programmatic and personnel changes as a result of the PRESIDENT'S BUDGET PROPOSAL, which does not change any law or funding allocations. Congress hasn't acted yet.
What are we doing here?
image from inside Artemis II text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.
Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)