Huda A
@Huda_Akil1
Neuroscientist. Neurobiology of emotions, mood and addiction | she/her
Challenge of the day: trying to take in all the amazing science that @ACNPorg is offering at the Phoenix meeting, while keeping track of the stunning developments in Syria, my native country…
Tenure-track faculty positions in Molecular Genetics and Genome Sciences in the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. Come Join us! medicine.ouhsc.edu/academic-depar… #OUHSC @OUCollegeofMed @GeneticsSociety @UofOklahoma
Stronger legs are associated with larger brain volume & slower cognitive decline. 🧵1/7
🧠 Webinar tomorrow (6/24: 12-1): I will be discussing our paper, “Promoting Open Discussions of Scientific Failure within the Annual Society for Neuroscience Conference” w/ Christophe Bernard (@eNeuroEiC ) & Daniela Schiller. Come join & submit questions! neuronline.sfn.org/scientific-res…
🧠🧬📈 Our paper is now live! 🎉 doi.org/10.1002/brb3.7… I was deeply impressed by the thoughtfulness of the peer review process at Brain and Behavior: publons.com/publon/10.1002… w/ @Huda_Akil1 @EricJNestler @LizabethIrene @GylesTrevonn @c_a_mclain @_HDRF @UM_MNI @GrinnellCollege
🧠🧬📈 New preprint! Tldr: Stress early in life can cause long-term effects on the prefrontal cortex, decreasing gene expression related to myelin. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… w/ @Huda_Akil1 @EricJNestler @GylesTrevonn @c_a_mclain @_HDRF @GrinnellCollegeCLS @biorxiv_neursci
🎉Congrats to Clare Stack and Mubashshir Bhuiyan (@raeedbhuiyan )! They presented research posters for the first time - first at the UM Neuroscience conference (@UM_MNI ) and then at the Michigan Society for Neuroscience (MISFN: @SfnMichigan ). ...and Clare won best poster at UM!
🧠🧬We still don’t know how antidepressants *actually* work. Why does depression respond to treatments as diverse as SSRIs, TCAs, ECT, TMS, tianeptine, and ketamine? What do these treatments have in common? (hint: not serotonin) See our new preprint! doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…
🧠🧬 What does sleep deprivation do to the brain? See our new preprint! "Short Report: A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Sleep Deprivation on the Cortical Transcriptome in Animal Models" doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… by @CosetteRhoads et al. w/@Huda_Akil1 at U of Michigan (@UM_MNI)
We are fortunate to have such a high caliber human and scientist at the helm!
Excited to share our work by exceptional postdoc, Kyungdeok (KD) Kim. 2025 marks 10th anniversary of meningeal lymphatic discovery and I can’t be happier celebrating it with this work addressing how lymphatic dysfunction leads to cognitive deficits || Meningeal…
Latest lab review- The Gut microbiota-Immune-Brain axis: Therapeutic Implications. Just out in @CellRepMed Well done @kjdoriordan @gerrymoloney @LilyKeane & @UCCpsychiatry cell.com/cell-reports-m…
🚨 New paper in @Nature! 🚨 We’ve mapped the human hypothalamus in unprecedented detail, revealing key differences from mice & unlocking insights into obesity, metabolism & drug development. Meet HYPOMAP—a cellular Google Maps for the brain’s metabolic control centre. 🧵(1/)
Floyd Bloom was a giant and an inspiration. He was also a good man to his very core. One of my heroes who became a friend, May he rest in light.
We lost a true pioneer in the field of neuroscience and neuropharmacology, Dr. Floyd Bloom. Words can hardly capture the enormity of his contributions. His work was essential to our understanding of how neurotransmission works and how it influences mental disorders. Floyd’s…
So cool to see this wonderful body of work, with some of my favorite molecular and neural players… opioids, PAG, etc. So happy when early hypotheses hold up and are enhanced, broadened and better explained with new technologies and great science! 🙏👏👏👏👏
1/ 🧠 Excited to share our new preprint: Convergent state-control of endogenous opioid analgesia We uncover how cognitive + contextual factors—like injury, fear, and placebo—modulate pain through dynamic opioid signaling in the periaqueductal gray (PAG) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
From my cousin in Aleppo: “We are so used to fear. We have been living with it for so long. We don’t know if we can get rid of it even if things do get better.” I really hope humanity can get to a point where we don’t do that to millions of people…
The University of Michigan announced Thursday that it is expanding its free tuition program known as the Go Blue Guarantee by increasing the income threshold by 67% to qualifying students who come from families earning $125,000 or less. detroitnews.com/story/news/loc… via @detroitnews
The Barbara Fish Memorial Award to an ACNP member who has made an outstanding contribution to basic, translational, or clinical neuroscience The #ACNP2024 awardees are Drs. Joseph Coyle and John Krystal
One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “The echo chamber effect on social media.” Explore the article here: ow.ly/rcjU50UcWcm For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/6zrH50UcWcl.