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Lieber Institute for Brain Development
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Changing the lives of people with schizophrenia and related mental illnesses. Learn more about our research at www.libd.org.
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Thanks so much - that means a lot to hear! I have a huge amount of gratitude for the amazing teams we have built here @lieberinstitute.bsky.social and the network of collaborators with such huge range of diverse expertise!
December 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Pretty neat to see our paper - led by @kr-maynard.bsky.social @lcolladotor.bsky.social on the 2021 list of most cited neuroscience papers 🧠🔬🧪

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The most-cited neuroscience papers from the past 30 years
Highly cited papers reflect the surge in artificial-intelligence research in the field and other technical advances.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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This effort started back in the early Visium days with our colleagues at the @lieberinstitute.bsky.social including @martinowk.bsky.social @kr-maynard.bsky.social @lcolladotor.bsky.social and others. Wonderful to have a complete release version out now. Thanks to everyone who contributed! 🧬🧠🎉
November 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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For #FluorescenceFriday - one of my favorites from the archives of a neuron ⚪ and astrocyte 🟢 co-culture. Image credit to Stephanie Page and former research assistant Beth Pattie 🧠🔬🧪
November 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Our lateral septum (LS) team is representing for #SfN25! We have two posters on Wed afternoon from RA Madeline Abramson (PSTR463.16) and undergraduate Yufeng Du (PSTR463.17) showcasing newest molecular profiling results across mouse, non-human primate and human 🧠

I'm there too - get in touch!
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Me lurking in people's folders on the server for #FluorescenceFriday. Image is so fresh off the scope that I don't even know what it is so I can't even tell you what the channels are - but, somebody (RA Jason Rehg) is doing something in the VTA and whatever it is, it looks super cool 🤩🧠🔬🧪
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Hot take: ggplot2 is better than any plotting option available in Python-- but I discuss a couple options in Python at an R Stats Club session @libdrstats.bsky.social linked below. I personally use plotnine, since it's essentially a port of ggplot2 for Python.

youtu.be/xK9UNcOfjnI
[2025-07-18] Plots in Python with seaborn and plotnine
YouTube video by Leonardo Collado Torres
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November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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I just completed my first radio 📻 interview ^_^

You'll be able to listen to it next Friday or so at www.iheart.com/podcast/269-.... Thanks Clau from iHeartRadio Miami's "Estamos Contigo" podcast for reaching out!

I'll be talking in Spanish about our recent #HabenulaLIBD 📜

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November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Happy to share that our paper characterizing PrL dynamics during sustained attention is finally out. This work was a collaboration between the @martinowk.bsky.social and Greg Carr groups at @lieberinstitute.bsky.social . www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Calicumimaging #miniscopes #rCPT #PrL
Patterns of neural activity in prelimbic cortex neurons correlate with attentional behavior in the rodent continuous performance test - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Patterns of neural activity in prelimbic cortex neurons correlate with attentional behavior in the rodent continuous performance test
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Had the most rewarding time at the HTNA #cshlcourses It was fun science-ing all day/night for 2wks to learn modern viral, whole 🧠 imaging & barcode-based seq approaches to understand neuroanatomy/function. Inspired & energized as I think of all the ways these tools can be applied in my own work!🧪 1/
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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This study is part of an ongoing collaboration between mine and Greg Carr's group @lieberinstitute.bsky.social to develop translational screening platforms for identifying and validating interventions for deficits in sustained attention, a process disrupted across many neuropsychiatric disorders.
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Our paper using endoscopic in vivo calcium imaging to uncover how neuronal population dynamics in the prelimbic cortex track attention and task engagement during the rodent continuous performance test (rCPT) is now online

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Patterns of neural activity in prelimbic cortex neurons correlate with attentional behavior in the rodent continuous performance test - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Patterns of neural activity in prelimbic cortex neurons correlate with attentional behavior in the rodent continuous performance test
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Estos datos servirán para trabajo futuro sobre cambios moleculares que ocurren en #Habénula en enfermedades 🧠🧬 Mantén un 👀 abierto en @lieberinstitute.bsky.social para nuevos resultados de Hb de datos transcriptómicos con resolución espacial @10xgenomics.bsky.social

speakerdeck.com/lahuuki/2025...
2025 LIBD lcolladotor data science team TL;DR
A recap of recent work from our R Bioconductor-powered Team Data Science group at the Lieber Institute for Data Science. Team website: https://lcol…
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November 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Acá va en español 🇲🇽
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"¡Estamos orgullosos de anunciar que nuestro artículo ‘Análisis Transcriptómico de la Habénula Humana en Esquizofrenia’ es el artículo de portada de la edición de noviembre del American Journal of Psychiatry!" 🧠 #HabenulaLIBD #snRNAseq #Habénula doi.org/10.1176/appi...
November 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Biostats professor @lcolladotor.bsky.social, along with his colleagues from @lieberinstitute.bsky.social, have created the first detailed molecular map of the human habenula, and with it gained new insights into its role in schizophrenia. Read the original study: psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
Tiny Brain Region May Hold Clues to Schizophrenia, Scientists Say | The Lieber Institute for Brain Development | Research & Discovery
What the Study Found Scientists have long searched for what goes wrong in the brains of people with schizophrenia. Now, researchers at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development in Baltimore may have ...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Excited to share that the second project from my time at @lieberinstitute.bsky.social with @lcolladotor.bsky.social is now published! This was such a rewarding collaboration to be part of. 💡🧠
Huge congrats to @lahuuki.bsky.social and all co-authors!
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Thanks to @nataliematosin.bsky.social and Sophie Debs for highlighting our work in their editorial “Unlocking the Molecular Secrets of the Human Habenula”
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Unlocking the Molecular Secrets of the Human Habenula | American Journal of Psychiatry
PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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This data provides a foundation for future work into molecular changes that occur in the #Habenula in disease 🧠🧬 Keep an eye on @lieberinstitute.bsky.social for future work on the Hb spatially resolved transcriptomics with @10xgenomics.bsky.social tech #Visium and #Xenium 👀 #HabenulaLIBD
November 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Thank you to all of our collaborators at the @lieberinstitute.bsky.social for their dedication and hard work on this project! 🧑‍🔬 #HabenulaLIBD @freneegf.bsky.social @nick-eagles.bsky.social @lcolladotor.bsky.social @kr-maynard.bsky.social @martinowk.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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#OpenData and #OpenCode from our latest @lieberinstitute.bsky.social project

Lots of #RStats and @bioconductor.bsky.social code inside of that repository!

#OpenScience
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Congrats to @lahuuki.bsky.social and many members of @kr-maynard.bsky.social and @lcolladotor.bsky.social teams in our division who contributed to this study! Really excited to see this paper now published with contribution of data resources for molecular profiles of human habenula cell types 🧠🔬🧪
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Proud to announce our paper ‘Transcriptomic Analysis of the Human Habenula in Schizophrenia’ from @lieberinstitute.bsky.social is the cover article for the November issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry! 🧠 #HabenulaLIBD #snRNAseq #Habenula doi.org/10.1176/appi...
Transcriptomic Analysis of the Human Habenula in Schizophrenia | American Journal of Psychiatry
Objective: The objective of this study was to define the molecular neuroanatomy of the human habenula (Hb) and identify transcriptomic differences between brains of individuals with schizophrenia and ...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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We recently checked out tidySingleCellExperiment at the R Stats Club @libdrstats.bsky.social, an R package part of a broader effort to bring tidy coding to genomics. Pretty useful!

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#RStats
[2025-07-11] Tidy manipulation of SingleCellExperiment objects
YouTube video by Leonardo Collado Torres
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November 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM