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Jun Wang-TAMU

@jwang311

Associate professor studying striatal circuit mechanisms underlying alcohol/drug use disorders and Alzheimer's disease

 Bryan, TX
medicine.tamu.edu/faculty-listings/wang.html
Joined April 2017
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@TAMUJul 18
What if Alzheimer's disease could be detected before memory loss begins? New research from Dr. Jun Wang at @TAMUMedicine found that the brain's ability to adapt may decline months before memory problems appear, opening the door to earlier intervention. Read more: tx.ag/KQuHVZA #TAMU #AggieResearch #TAMUMedicine
Before the memory fades: Scientists discover a potential early warning sign of Alzheimer’s – Texas...

Before the memory fades: Scientists discover a potential early warning sign of Alzheimer’s – Texas...

New research suggests Alzheimer’s disease may affect the brain’s ability to adapt before memory problems become obvious, offering clues for earlier interventions.

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A journal trialled paying their reviewers and found it led to faster first editorial decisions – and increased review quality go.nature.com/4vJMCme
Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief

Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief

Nature - A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.

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Jason Shepherd@JasonSynapticJun 29
Very excited for our new paper, now out in @CellCellPress! /🧵The protein Tau forms intracellular toxic tangles in neurons in Alzheimer’s disease and Tauopathies. Tau pathology slowly spreads from cell-to-cell but the mechanisms of Tau transmission are not clear. /1
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Striatal pathways dissociably control action counting and goal-directed steering nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
Striatal pathways dissociably control action counting and goal-directed steering

Striatal pathways dissociably control action counting and goal-directed steering

Nature Neuroscience - Striatal direct and indirect pathways jointly control how many actions are performed during counting, and how animals move toward specific goals. These pathways implement a...

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Proud of my team and deeply grateful for all the hard work that made this study possible.
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Online now: Dual-engram architecture within a single striatal cell type distinctly controls alcohol relapse and extinction dlvr.it/TS2Fkt
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Neuron@NeuroCellPressApr 14
Online now: Dual-engram architecture within a single striatal cell type distinctly controls alcohol relapse and extinction dlvr.it/TS2Fkt
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Excited to share our new paper in Neuron. We show that opposing alcohol memories are stored in distinct engram ensembles within the same striatal cell type (dMSNs): one promotes relapse, while another supports extinction. We further identify persistent corticostriatal potentiation as a key substrate of relapse memory. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.202…
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How does a traumatic brain injury reshape the brain and why does it increase vulnerability to addiction? Find out at vitalrecord.tamu.edu/inflame… #AggieMedicine #AdvancingMedicine #AggieResearch
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Congrats to Yufei, my talented student who’s studies Alzheimer’s disease!
Yufei-TAMU (@bxgttneuron) profile pictureYufei-TAMU@bxgttneuron25 Aug 2025
Thrilled to share that my poster was selected for a Poster Award at the 2025 CNCM Annual Conference: The Changing Brain! 🧠✨ Thank you to the CMVM and judges for my work. Excited for what comes next! #2025CNCM @UCI_NeurCircuit @jwang311
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Yufei-TAMU@bxgttneuron25 Aug 2025
Thrilled to share that my poster was selected for a Poster Award at the 2025 CNCM Annual Conference: The Changing Brain! 🧠✨ Thank you to the CMVM and judges for my work. Excited for what comes next! #2025CNCM @UCI_NeurCircuit @jwang311
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Wang Lab@WangLabTAMHSC20 Aug 2025
Excited to share our new paper in Neuropharmacology: "Perinatal and Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Impairs Striatal Cholinergic Function and Cognitive Flexibility in Adult Offspring." It shows PAE impairs striatal cholinergic activity and promotes compulsive alcohol drinking.
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Dopamine encodes deep network teaching signals for individual learning trajectories: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
Dopamine encodes deep network teaching signals for individual learning trajectories

Dopamine encodes deep network teaching signals for individual learning trajectories

Longitudinal tracking of long-term learning behavior and striatal dopamine reveals that dopamine teaching signals shape individually diverse yet systematic learning trajectories, captured mathemati...

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🚨 Excited to share our new study in @NatureNeuro! We (+@StephCragg) show that ChIs (via nAChRs) continuously, and dynamically DEPRESS dopamine release! @OxfordDPAG @uniofexeHLS nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
An axonal brake on striatal dopamine output by cholinergic interneurons

An axonal brake on striatal dopamine output by cholinergic interneurons

Nature Neuroscience - Cholinergic interneurons act at nicotinic receptors to depress dopamine release, interrupting its relationship to dopamine neuron firing and supporting an inverse scaling of...

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Check out our newly published work @ScienceAdvances on microglia-neuron interaction in led by talented PhD student @ShunyiZhao_ @MayoGradSchool @CNG_UTHealth. Shunyi used in vivo 2p imaging to show that chemogenetic activation of Gi in microglia reduces neuronal synchronization.
Shunyi Zhao (@ShunyiZhao_) profile pictureShunyi Zhao@ShunyiZhao_28 Feb 2025
Using in vivo two-photon imaging and chemogenetics, we investigated the role of microglial Gi-GPCR signaling in neuronal circuits. Big shoutout to my mentor @LongJun_Wu and co-authors for all the help! science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
Chemogenetic activation of microglial Gi signaling decreases microglial surveillance and impairs...

Chemogenetic activation of microglial Gi signaling decreases microglial surveillance and impairs...

Microglial Gi signaling inhibits process dynamics, reduces microglia-neuron soma interactions, and decreases neuronal activity.

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🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨 @Jackie_Gio discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s41... Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv
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