Sam Brill-Weil
sambrillweil.bsky.social
Sam Brill-Weil
@sambrillweil.bsky.social
Neuroscience PhD Candidate in the Do Lab at HMS and BCH. Former postbac in the Khaliq Lab. Bowdoin College alum. Electrophysiologist (otherwise known as a human automated patch-clamp rig).
Happy to share the newest paper from the Khaliq Lab! 🎉 We show that striatal dopaminergic axons can integrate GABAergic inhibition and nicotinic excitation to shape their output.

www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Presynaptic GABAA receptors control integration of nicotinic input onto dopaminergic axons in the striatum
Brill-Weil et al. show that axonal GABAA receptors regulate excitatory nicotinic input onto the axons of dopaminergic neurons. This regulation alters integration of the subthreshold nicotinic input to...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM