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Undergraduate Assistant Allie Pataro Hello, my name is Allie Pataro and I am a Junior undergraduate student at MSU studying neuroscience. My concentration is cognitive and computational neuroscience, and I am particularly interested in the basis of motivation and learned behaviors, whether this is with complex human behavior or simple behaviors shown in many species. […]
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Undergraduate Assistant Sammy Nandwani My name is Sammy Nandwani and I am a sophomore in the Lyman Briggs College majoring in Physiology and Neuroscience. I am currently planning to graduate in 2022 and going to medical school. I am a member of the Osteopathic Medical Scholars Program(OMSP) and Honors College. I am interested in pursing […]
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Undergraduate Grace Sarris Flavor Text (~100 Words)
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Graduate Student Jacob Howe
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READ MORELab Manager Nathan “Aura” Pence Aura has been with the Johnson Lab since November 2018, and has been lab manager since September 2020. He completed his Bachelors of Science in Cognitive Neuroscience at Michigan State University in December 2020 with Honor. Aura’s research interests focus on endophenotypes and aberrant dopamine expression associated with neuropsychiatric disorders like […]
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News / Pub - Ingestive Behavior / Pub - Neuropsychiatric Illness / Publications 2020-01-01
READ MOREIn: Physiology PMID: 31799907 DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00013.2019 Abstract: Ovarian hormones are associated with risk for binge eating in women. Recent animal and human studies suggest that food-related reward processing may be one set of neurobiological factors that contribute to these relationships, but additional studies are needed to confirm and extend findings.
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In: Nature Communications PMID: 31664021 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12895-y Abstract: Behavioral impulsivity is common in various psychiatric and metabolic disorders. Here we identify a hypothalamus to telencephalon neural pathway for regulating impulsivity involving communication from melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH)-expressing lateral hypothalamic neurons to the ventral hippocampus subregion (vHP). Results show that both site-specific upregulation (pharmacological or chemogenetic) and […]
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READ MOREBen, Lauren and Nicollette presented their work at SFN’s annual meeting in Chicago. Their posters stimulated much interest and discussion. Afterwards, the lab enjoyed a celebratory meal at the Purple Pig! See you next year in DC.