Amanda Kentner

@MindfulRat
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Just a mid-career behavioral neuroscientist ticking along, as long as the old heart keeps ticking
Studies developing #brains and #behavior, #stress, #immune activation, and #enrichment | a Canadian Professor of Psychology in Boston MA | #FirstGen
Laboratory Websitehttps://www.kentnerlab.org/
Amanda KentnerJul 22, 2023
The Birds Are Singing, but Not for Me @NYTOpinion
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/opinion/hearing-aging-deafness.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Opinion | The Birds Are Singing, but Not for Me

Evolution’s curse of creeping deafness changes how a biologist experiences nature.

The New York Times
Amanda KentnerJul 8, 2023
Sent to me by a mentor & friend. Still slowly reading but highly recommend! 🐌
Amanda KentnerJan 1, 2023
Dean Burnett (that brains guy)Jan 1, 2023

Why grief doesn't make sense - even to a neuroscientist

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/real-life/article-11559527/Why-grief-doesnt-make-sense-neuroscientist.html

An interview with me for today's You Magazine (Mail On Sunday), about the experience of losing my father during the pandemic, and how the emotional trauma made me revaluate everything I thought I knew about emotions.

Also in print.

#Grief #Emotions #MentalHealth #Neuroscience

Why grief doesn't make sense - even to a neuroscientist

During this time of trauma, Burnett knew enough to trust the process. 'The emotional pain we feel when bad things happen is like the swelling we get after an injury,' he says.

Daily Mail
Amanda KentnerDec 8, 2022
Darby SaxbeDec 7, 2022
Seeking a #postdoc for next year (flexible start) to work with our super cool transition to parenthood data + our new 7-year follow-up wave. Would love to find someone with #neuroimaging skills, but am open to other interests too. We have #brain, #behavioral, #hormonal data from new #parents, recruited in the #prenatal period; we are now looking at child #neurodevelopment at age 7. More info here; please share! https://dornsife.usc.edu/nestlab/hiring
Join Us > NeuroEndocrinology of Social Ties Lab > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Amanda KentnerDec 3, 2022
The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Dec 3, 2022

Please use our 'Naturalistic Neuroimaging Database' (NNDb v2). It consists of N=86 people who did a battery of behavioural tests and watched one of 10 full-length #movies during #fMRI. It has 46,249,600,000 voxels or 6.69 days worth of data to play with. 🥳

Data: https://openneuro.org/datasets/ds002837/versions/2.0.0

It is also available on Neuroscout: https://neuroscout.org

Read the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00680-2

We are now collecting a 3T NNDb with adolescents and adults, and before/after #psychedelics.

OpenNeuro

Amanda KentnerDec 3, 2022
Job Alert: New York City’s ‘Rat Czar’
For those with a “swashbuckling attitude, crafty humor, and general aura of badassery” which the position lists as requirements, in addition to being “highly motivated and somewhat bloodthirsty.” https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/03/us/nyc-rat-czar-job-application-trnd/index.html
Amanda KentnerDec 3, 2022
Nice #swag with this recent PFA order. It will help to pickle my own tissues after fixing the lab’s experimental ones 🍷
Amanda KentnerNov 23, 2022
J. David Jentsch ("yench") 🌈Nov 23, 2022
New preprint! We examined the acquisition of intravenous cocaine self-administration in a sample of almost 1000 mice from more than 80 genetic backgrounds. We integrated information on genetic variation, the striatal and frontal cortical transcriptome and RNA splicing to identify novel genetic regulators of voluntary cocaine taking. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.10.516062v2
#neuroscience
Amanda KentnerNov 23, 2022
Oded RechaviNov 23, 2022

Super proud of my brother Yoav, check out his beautiful paper and spread the word! 💥🥳🎓 Does exercise change coding in the brain?

check out the paper and also his

cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(22)01569-8

twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/yoavrec/status/1595166148915564559?s=20&t=SVsMG0TWiZ6tHliQULTmgA

Yoav Rechavi on Twitter

“🔥 My PhD work is finally published! @CellReports We showed how running improves neuronal code quality and affects its stability in mice. Here’s a short thread on what we found (and how we studied it) >> https://t.co/x76EgbWE0X”

Twitter
Amanda KentnerNov 23, 2022
Laura HelmuthNov 17, 2022
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