One of my favorite Mexican traditions is Día de muertos. It is not about death or sorrow, it is about celebrating life and the ones that went ahead with the journey we all are going to take. I love teaching my son this beautiful celebration and that he helped me with the ofrenda

Fos expression ⚪️ after chemogenetic activation of PFC-LC projectors🔴. Are you interested in its effect on a sustained attention task #rCPT? Then stop by @rehg_j poster at #SFN2024. He'll show some of the work we do in the circuits team in @martinowk group. #FluorescenceFriday

Colors reversed this week: cortical projections bound for LC 🔴 or VTA 🟢. Totally love the images coming out of these experiments and just can't get enough ;) Image credits to @rehg_j @jmirandab84 #FluorescenceFriday and come check us out at #SfN24 🧠🤩🔬

Division of Translational Neuroscience @LieberInstitute will be at #SfN24! Presentations span mice, monkeys and humans from molecular to cellular through circuits and behavior. If you are interested in what we do, please stop by! @rehg_j @MicTott @R_Phillips_3rd @YufengDuYufeng

Fos staining 🟢 in LC-NE neurons 🟣 - We can't hide we love what we do in the circuits team in the @martinowk group. If you are curious about the story behind this pic, please stop by @rehg_j poster at #SFN24. #FluorescenceFriday

In honor of the first #FluorescenceFriday of fall, here’s an image that reminds me of the changing colors we’ll be seeing soon 🍁 from an experiment @jmirandab84 @d_e_olivares and I are running! GCaMP 🟢 in prelimbic neurons with a colabeled LC-projecting sub population 🟠

Cortical neurons headed to the locus coeruleus 🟢 or ventral tegmental area 🔴 - credit to @jmirandab84 @d_e_olivares @rehg_j @rehg_j, who is applying to grad school this cycle, will be presenting work from this project @SfNtweets if you are interested! #FluorescenceFriday

yes, we have a little obsession with LC-projecting cortical neurons (green) in the @martinowk group. But I think we are expanding our obsession to midbrain-projecting cortical neurons (red) too!! #FluorescenceFriday

For #FluorescenceFriday - more locus coeruleus -projecting cortical neurons because we just can't get enough of these cells ;) Image credit to @rehg_j 💙🔬🤩

Es importante hablar de salud mental en Español. La comunidad latina merece el acceso a la información y a la salud en nuestro idoma. It's very important to talk about mental health in Spanish. Hispanic community deserves access to information and health care in our language!

New study led by Tyler Li from @GregCarrNeuro lab combining traditional analyses of the rodent continuous performance task with pose estimation using DeepLabCut and visual field analysis to measure mouse orientation toward stimuli.

Inspired by @martinowk post for #FluorescenceFriday, a little more of LC-projecting cortical neurons. Now, with Fos staining (red) after chemogenetic activation of LC-projecting neurons (green). @martinowk, @rehg_j and I love these neurons, as you can see.

For #FluorescenceFriday - more LC-projecting cortical neurons from our circuits team because they are just that pretty. @rehg_j @jmirandab84 💙🔬🤩

TH+ neurons 🔴 in the mouse LC - with a viral label that is clearly not selective for the mouse LC 🟢 - but, still made for a very pretty image #FluorescenceFriday

#FluorescenceFriday: Anatomical confirmation of GRIN lens track above the LC (TH= red, hsyn-GCaMP (green). Not perfect but we are getting close for good recordings in the brain stem in the circuits team in the @martinowk lab. Credit to my RA @d_e_olivares for the pic.

Super excited to have this preprint from our Circuits Team - led by @jmirandab84 @SuhaasSAdiraju @rehg_j and collaboration with @GregCarrNeuro, out online using in vivo imaging to assess patterns of neural activity in prelimbic cortex neurons during sustained attention

Patterns of neural activity in prelimbic cortex neurons correlate with attentional behavior in the rodent continuous performance test https://t.co/kGxQrk58Rn #biorxiv_neursci

I know you've all seen these LC-projecting cortical neurons enough now, but it's hard to not develop a bit of an obsession with them - they are really just stunning. Image credit to @rehg_j #FluorescenceFriday 🔬🧠🔵

Actual results of this experiment labeling activated LC-projecting ACC neurons left everyone a little stumped, but did make for a really pretty picture - image credit to @rehg_j 🔬🧠🔵

For #fluorescencefriday - some projection neurons in the basolateral amygdala - image credit to @R_Phillips_3rd 🔬🧠🤩