Dave Root
@NeuronRoot
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Neuroscientist at CU Boulder 🦬
Boulder, CO
Joined July 2011
Going to mostly move to the other place but we're looking to hire an electrophysiologist, please get in touch if interested
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RT @mbruchas: Please chk out the lab's newest paper, a labor of love it was. From @aluskin & @dilithium21, w/ @madisonmartin @Braininajarr….
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Nature - A set of neurons in the peri-locus coeruleus region controls arousal and avoidance states, providing an understanding of the neurobiological basis of arousal and exploratory behaviours.
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RT @sebneuro: 📢 New paper : Amygdala hyperactivity is a hallmark of anxiety, but how it happens remains a mystery. Using a mouse model of s….
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Brain defensive mechanisms evolved to maintain low levels of state anxiety. However, risk factors such as stress exposure shift activity within defensive circuits, resulting in increased anxiety. The...
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RT @HongkuiZeng: Excited to share our single-cell study on aging mouse brain published in Nature today! We found an aging hotspot in specif….
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Nature - A comprehensive single-cell RNA sequencing study delineates cell-type-specific transcriptomic changes in the brain associated with normal ageing that will inform the investigation into...
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RT @LinTianPhD: Excited to share my profile on @storiesofwin after a wonderful conversation with @DrNancyPadilla about my path in neuroscie….
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RT @devin_effinger: 13 years ago, I was dying from OUD. The 12 steps saved my life, without any need for a belief in god. I learned a way o….
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RT @ScienceYael: It is more important than ever to spend time talking to people about science. Communicate its value, and its objectivity….
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RT @gabriel_tofani: 🚨 New Research. Excited to share my PhD work now published in @Cell_Metabolism.In this study we explore the role of the….
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RT @AnnaZhukovskaya: My PhD work is finally out in @NeuroCellPress! "Heightened lateral habenula activity during stress produces brainwide….
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Zhukovskaya et al. show that during social defeat, stress-susceptible mice have higher initial activity in LHb. Closed-loop LHb activation during defeat produces lasting behavioral and neural...
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RT @GoldbergLab: New preprint w/ @lab_plotkin about cholinergic interneurons causing local serotonin release in striatum and how this is re….
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Striatal cholinergic interneurons (CINs) activate nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) on dopamine axons to extend the range of dopamine release. Here we show that synchronous activation of...
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RT @brainaddiction: Does Drug Intake Despite Adverse Consequences Really Measure Compulsivity?.There’s a big debate in addiction research:….
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RT @TamIWas: God grant me the confidence of the dude that tried to mansplain "The Handmaids Tale" to Margaret Atwood.
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RT @biorxiv_neursci: Synchronous activation of striatal cholinergic interneurons induces local serotonin release #….
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RT @mbruchas: Pls Chk out the lab's recent work from Eric Zhang (not on X), now in press & pre-printed. "Dentate Gyrus Norepinephrine Ramp….
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Dysregulation in aversive contextual processing is believed to affect several forms of psychopathology, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The dentate gyrus (DG) is an important brain...
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RT @ACNPorg: Last chance! The deadline to submit an application for the ACNP Early-Stage Investigator Assistance Program is TODAY, October….
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RT @NeuroBoc: Risk avoidance behaviors and relief by alcohol are driven by imbalance of brain dopamine receptors in mice .
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Alcohol use disorder is frequently comorbid with anxiety disorders. Our recent study, published in Nature Communications, applies mouse models to explore the relationship between alcohol use and...
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RT @biorxiv_neursci: Reductions of Grin2a in adolescent dopamine neurons confers aberrant salience and related psychosis phenotype https:/….
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