Assistant Professor @MountSinaiPsych ▪Brain+Body interactions in stress/fear/metabolism Lab ▪Yogā▪ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known"🧠🌌
Nepal/UofM/UW-Mad/UCLA/Sinai
Joined January 2019
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I want to share this research was inspired by me-search: everyday yoga practice that involves breathing and meditation and contemplation to know more biologically!
Excited to share new work from our lab showing, for the first time, a link between breathing dysregulation, stress responses, and energy metabolism via a neuropeptide receptor mechanism.
This opens new ways for understanding brain–body interactions! biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Vagus nerve stimulation enhances context discrimination and dentate gyrus neurogenesis through Trk signaling
doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/f…
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Today marks a historic milestone for metabolic psychiatry!
Baszucki Group is launching the Global Network for the Advancement of Metabolic Psychiatry (MetPsy), alongside a $20 million investment to establish the McLean Center for Metabolic Psychiatry at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate.
For years, I've argued that mental disorders can be understood as metabolic disorders impacting the brain. Advancing this field requires rigorous scientific research, innovative clinical care, and education and training to bring emerging discoveries into clinical practice.
This investment will help advance all three.
I'm particularly excited to be leading the education and training initiatives at both McLean Hospital and MH². We'll be developing clinical case conferences, journal clubs, symposia, CME programs, and other opportunities for clinicians and scientists to learn, collaborate, and help shape the future of metabolic psychiatry.
I am deeply grateful to Baszucki Group for their extraordinary commitment to this field and to the many researchers, clinicians, patients, and families who have helped bring us to this moment.
Patients deserve better treatments, and together, we have an opportunity to transform mental health care.
Read the full announcement:
mh2.health/announcement/x
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Brown #adipose tissue (BAT) lowers #cardiometabolic disease risk — but high-throughput profiling of human BAT is challenging. With help from Promethion #Metabolic Cages, a Nature study combined #BigData & #AI to reveal BAT's benefits in 10,000+ patients.
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TOMORROW! On Oct. 27, 10am, join the #BrainBodyResearchInstitute Seminar Series when host
@cam_phd welcomes @TU_Muenchen's Dr. Stefan Engelhardt: "Heart–brain crosstalk in #CardiovascularDisease: immune-mediated remodeling of autonomic circuits". RSVP 👉 mountsinai.zoom.us/webinar/r…
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A large-scale mapping study reveals the functional architecture of the human insula, showing how this deep brain region tracks bodily sensations like heat, tingling, and nausea. This work clarifies how the brain integrates internal physiological states into conscious experience.
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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We are thrilled to see @PaulKennyPhD and Anne Schaeffer elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Both are world leaders in neuroscience research whose work has direct implications for better understanding and treating several brain disorders. @SinaiBrain @IcahnMountSinai
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🌟 We are thrilled to share that @icahnmountsinai's Drs. @PaulKennyPhD & Anne Schaefer have been elected to @thenamedicine. Election to the Academy is one of the highest honors in fields of health & medicine. We are INCREDIBLY PROUD! HUGE CONGRATULATIONS👉 nam.edu/news-and-insights/na…
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1/ We discovered something totally unexpected about the neural structure of consciousness that overturns decades of thinking on its biological basis and brings us significantly closer to the recipe for generating conscious awareness.
New preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… (led by @HesseJanis, with @FrankLanfranchi, @_conor_mcgrory, @Yuelin_Shi, and @EngelTatiana)
A little late, but thrilled about Scott’s appointment as Chair of Neuroscience and the opportunity to strengthen brain–body research. He has been a wonderful mentor, a strong supporter of our lab’s multidisciplinary brain-body work, and an outstanding collaborator. Amazing news!
We are INCREDIBLY EXCITED to share that @ScottRussoPhD has been appointed Chair of #NashNeuroscience @IcahnMountSinai. Dr. Russo is a distinguished neuroscientist, visionary leader & mentor. We couldn't be happier for the Department of Neuroscience! Congratulations, Dr. Russo! 🎉
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This appointment is especially meaningful to me since @ScottRussoPhD first joined my lab then at UT Southwestern at Dallas as a postdoc in 2003 and was my first faculty hire when I moved to @IcahnMountSinai in 2008.
We are INCREDIBLY EXCITED to share that @ScottRussoPhD has been appointed Chair of #NashNeuroscience @IcahnMountSinai. Dr. Russo is a distinguished neuroscientist, visionary leader & mentor. We couldn't be happier for the Department of Neuroscience! Congratulations, Dr. Russo! 🎉
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I’m honored and excited to serve as Chair of the Nash Family Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai! Grateful to follow in the footsteps of @PaulKenny and @EricNestler and build on their incredible legacy. Looking forward to what we’ll achieve together! #Neuroscience
We are INCREDIBLY EXCITED to share that @ScottRussoPhD has been appointed Chair of #NashNeuroscience @IcahnMountSinai. Dr. Russo is a distinguished neuroscientist, visionary leader & mentor. We couldn't be happier for the Department of Neuroscience! Congratulations, Dr. Russo! 🎉
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1/🧠🫀 What if #interoception is about more than accurately detecting your body?
Our new Opinion in @TrendsCognSci asks a different question: what do bodily signals mean to us?
➡️cell.com/trends/cognitive-sc…
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Recognizing their pioneering development of #Optogenetics, The Nobel Assembly @karolinskainst has officially awarded the @NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to @KarlDeisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel. Congratulations 👏 Learn More 👉 nobelprize.org/prizes/medici…
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Very important review!
It has long been recognized that millions of women, especially younger women, are disproportionately affected by pain disorders.
In a new #ScienceReview, researchers synthesize recent advances in understanding these conditions. scim.ag/3VcRS4H
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I’m excited to announce the launch of BPCCIR:
Building the Future of Interoceptive Neuroscience
—a new 5-year, $3.5M NIH Blueprint U24 Coordination Center focused on advancing the science of brain–body communication. 1/3
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#lipidtime: It's a lipid universe. Today in Nature we publish the Lipid Brain Atlas, the first map of membrane lipid composition across the entire mouse brain, a layer of organisation that cell-type and transcript maps had left out. #lipidomics #neuroscience #BrainAtlas
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How regular exercise enhances our immune response.
A multiomic blood assessment (single-cell RNA, epigenetics, metabolites, lipids, and cells) with distinct signature for exercise vs sedentary lifestyle @ScienceAdvances
science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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A hypothalamic circuit links high-fat diet exposure to anxiety-like behavior and anxiety-associated hyperphagia
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2
