Vikaas Sohal

New paper online! In 2018, we found a human brain signal that tracks real time fluctuations in mood/anxiety. Now Adam Jackson back-translates this biomarker to mice, dissects its circuit mechanisms, & tests its causal relationship to emotional state. 🧵1/6 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S08…

Excited to see this in print this morning, coincidentally on the lab's birthday! Here we tackle the question of how the PFC multiplexes social and contextual information using overlapping ensembles of neurons. doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Our preprint detailing our novel approach to identifying personalized neuromodulation targets to treat severe, refractory OCD using brain mapping is now out on MedRxiv. Here, we describe our first SEEG-guided DBS case for OCD at UCSF: medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Many thanks to @CarlJShi & @attila_losonczy for hosting me at @ZuckermanBrain today. So great to see our superstar former tech now developing cool new technologies, and hear from Columbia folks about PFC development, inhibitory synaptic plasticity and much more.

I’m excited to share a new paper from the lab. The study led by Xiaowei Gu reveals how the mPFC encodes complex emotional memories, using an internal model to infer emotional associations and memories via projections to the amygdala rdcu.be/el19t nature.com/articles/s4158…

One more post while I'm at it: my 'Meet-the-Clincian-Expert' @SfNtweets talk, describing my lab's work plus my career path, is now available on demand: neuronline.sfn.org/scientific-res…

Excited to share our Preprint led by talented PDFs, Yu-Tzu Shih PhD and Jason Alipio PhD describing our identification of Experience-dependent PV IN plasticity as a convergent mechanism for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NDDs) 1/n researchsquare.com/article/rs-562…

Please join the SfN webinar at 1-2pm EST, Wednesday Jan 15. Dr. Vikaas Sohal @sohallab will be showcasing his career as a physician-scientist, together with his great science on psychiatric disease research! We will have plenty time for questions from audience!!

Thrilled to share our new paper in @Nature - "Understanding the neural code of stress to control anhedonia." A wonderful team effort with @_fxia, @VFascianelli and @StefanoFusi2. Check out the thread below. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congrats to @Da_Dr_Zhu on his Young Investigator award from @BBRFoundation !!

Looking forward to #sfn2024! I'll talk on Sat PM and the lab will have posters on Mon PM from @APhensy @LenaShindy Lara Hagopian & Teagan Bullock. Thanks to @christineliuart for flyer production!!

Thanks to @SachinPatelLab for hosting me at @NUFeinbergMed yesterday! Many great conversations about schizophrenia, oscillations and neurodevelopment with @jones_g_parker @penzes2018 and others! Bonus: taking these home to win points with the family

Exciting news! @christineliuart and I are co-hosting an Art of Neuroscience social at #SfN24! Come and showcase your art (submit by Sept 27!) or come and mingle with us and fellow artists and art enthusiasts! 🎨🧠 artofneuroscience.com Please RT! Poster art by @DaniBeckman 🔬

Schizophrenia exists. Mental illness exists. Psychiatric medications can be life-saving. Psychotherapy can be life-saving. Don't let misinformed people tell you otherwise. Enough with the anti-psychiatry propaganda and stigma. ✌️

Congratulations to Carlos Johnson-Cruz on finishing his PhD in style! We had champagne, a gong and empanadas but were unable to accommodate his request for a doctoral sword.