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Esther Castillo-Gómez

@neuroesther

Neuroscientist & Professor & Mum (not sure everything’s possible). PI at @NESTLab_UJI @REISestres #anatomy#medicine#stress#neuropeptides#plasticity#behavior

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Concentració silenciosa en memòria de les víctimes i persones afectades per la DANA amb motiu del primer aniversari de la tragèdia.

29.10.2025 12:09 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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So proud to organise this International Conference on the Impact of Environmental Pollutants on Mental and Neurological Health🤩This scientific meeting is being held at @uji.es from 29 to 31 October.
👍 www.fue.uji.es/psycomed
@psycomedconference.bsky.social

#somuji #fueuji #mentalhealth

29.10.2025 11:19 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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▶️ Congresos y Jornadas Técnicas•Muy orgullosos de organizar este encuentro científico impulsado por el consorcio Psycomed.
www.fue.uji.es/psycomed
Mañana inauguramos en @uji.es 👏 29,30,31 de octubre: conferencia sobre el impacto de los contaminantes ambientales sobre la salud neurológica y mental

28.10.2025 11:46 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Huge congratulations to @carmensandi10.bsky.social on receiving the ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award from @ecnp.eu - So richly deserved

11.10.2025 15:23 👍 41 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
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Cell's sugar coating mapped at below-nanometre resolution Super-resolution technique works with off-the-shelf optical microscopes.

News article @nature.com covering a recent study published
@natnano.nature.com

Cell's sugar coating mapped at below-nanometre resolution.

"Super-resolution technique works with off-the-shelf optical microscopes."

#Glycotime

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

30.07.2025 07:30 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Proposal recommended for funding! Which means we have a fresh, 3-year-funded position available for a computational postdoc interested in studying dynamics of social interactions in rats, with simultaneous Neuropixels data to follow 🐀🐀🐀

Proper job ad pending, but email me if interested!

15.07.2025 20:54 👍 140 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 0
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🚨We will soon be offering #NewPositions for lab technicians, research assistants and postdocs, to join us in #Coimbra, Portugal
If interested in investigating the neural circuits of #SocialCognition in rats, contact us!
Details 👇🏾
dynabrain.cnc.uc.pt
@caixaresearch.bsky.social
@fct_pt

09.07.2025 12:05 👍 21 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 3
¿El estrés sufrido durante la infancia y adolescencia puede alterar nuestro comportamiento social?
¿El estrés sufrido durante la infancia y adolescencia puede alterar nuestro comportamiento social? YouTube video by Universitat Jaume I

¿Sabías que el estrés sufrido durante la infancia y la adolescencia puede alterar nuestro comportamiento social para siempre? Personal investigador #CienciaUJI estudia las bases neuronales de esta asociación y analiza por qué algunas personas son más resilientes que otras.
youtu.be/BUY_41WgRvk

25.02.2025 11:45 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Echadle un vistazo 👇🏻👁️ a este video tan interesante 🧠🐭 de la mano de los investigadores @paco-olucha.bsky.social y @neuroesther.bsky.social. Fent #CiènciaUJI 👩🏼‍🔬

25.02.2025 17:24 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Automated detection of c-Fos-expressing neurons using inhomogeneous background subtraction in fluorescent images Although many methods for automated fluorescent-labeled cell detection have been proposed, not all of them assume a highly inhomogeneous background ar…

Automated detection of c-Fos-expressing neurons using inhomogeneous background subtraction in fluorescent images
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

21.02.2025 10:51 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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A neural basis for prosocial behavior toward unresponsive individuals Humans often take actions to assist others experiencing unresponsiveness, such as transient loss of consciousness. How other animals react to unresponsive conspecifics—and the neural mechanisms drivin...

A neural basis for prosocial behavior toward unresponsive individuals
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

21.02.2025 18:39 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
a part of the brain charged with responding to stress contains 2 mediators, red and green, typically  in separate cells. early-life stress leads to their presence in a single cell, perhaps amplifying responses to stress later in life

a part of the brain charged with responding to stress contains 2 mediators, red and green, typically in separate cells. early-life stress leads to their presence in a single cell, perhaps amplifying responses to stress later in life

So, stress amplifies our coping strategies: Colocalization of the 2 stress-sensitive peptides, CRH (green) and vasopressin (red), is augmented in adult hypothalamus after early-life stress #FluorescenceFriday 🧪🧠 #NeurobiologyofStress

21.02.2025 20:50 👍 33 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0
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Social buffering during fear extinction rescues long-term trauma-induced memory and emotional behavioral alterations in rats - Translational Psychiatry Translational Psychiatry - Social buffering during fear extinction rescues long-term trauma-induced memory and emotional behavioral alterations in rats

Social buffering during fear extinction rescues long-term trauma-induced memory and emotional behavioral alterations in rats
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

21.02.2025 18:56 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Very interesting! Congratulations!

21.02.2025 21:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

5. Mostly what I take away from this (likely apocryphal) story about Barbara McClintock is that science isn't a race, it's a process. Some of us value a rapid process while some of us value a slower paced process. It is important that we don't treat science as a race towards some invisible goal.

31.01.2025 18:20 👍 30 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 0
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More pics!!

01.02.2025 17:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Enjoying science at the I Meeting of @reistress.bsky.social! Thanks to @luriguen.bsky.social and the team for such great organization!! Some pics from our groups👇 @paco-olucha.bsky.social @neuroesther.bsky.social

01.02.2025 17:19 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Our group has hosted the I Meeting of the Spanish Network of Stress Research. Three days full of science and amazing friends and colleagues #REIStress #Bilbao @cibersam.bsky.social

31.01.2025 22:00 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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What a great ending for an amazing meeting! Family picture! I Meeting of the Spanish Network of Stress Research, Bilbao 2025 @ageinves.bsky.social @saludisciii.bsky.social

31.01.2025 21:52 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2

"We report that numerous “miRNAs” previously reported in EMT and cancer contexts are not incorporated into RISC and are not capable of endogenously silencing target genes, despite the fact that hundreds of publications in the cancer field describe their roles"

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

12.12.2024 22:21 👍 33 🔁 17 💬 6 📌 4
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New open access paper out in Neuropharmacology!
@alicesanson.bsky.social shares another piece of the puzzle about the role of the #CRF and #oxytocin systems in the nucleus accumbens shell (NacSh) in the postpartum period. You can read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

17.12.2024 09:05 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 2
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La evolución biológica es un hecho probado: el consenso científico rechaza el creacionismo desde hace más de un siglo En respuesta a las recientes declaraciones antievolucionistas de Jaime Mayor Oreja, desde la Junta Directiva de la Sociedad Española de Biología hemos escrito esta carta abierta: La evolución biológ...

El consenso científico rechaza el creacionismo desde hace más de un siglo. Carta a Mayor Oreja de la Sociedad Española de Biologia Evolutiva sesbe.org/la-evolucion...

10.12.2024 20:39 👍 13 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
This is figure 6, which shows that DBSLH mediates long-term improvements in walking in humans with SCI.

This is figure 6, which shows that DBSLH mediates long-term improvements in walking in humans with SCI.

A study in Nature Medicine finds that deep brain stimulation of a region called the lateral hypothalamus improves walking and promotes recovery in humans and rodents with spinal cord injury. https://go.nature.com/3Vlosyl 🧪

02.12.2024 20:08 👍 95 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0
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Nueva versión del primo de Rajoy…

02.12.2024 20:18 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
diagrams of Behavioral assays tested

diagrams of Behavioral assays tested

1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! We looked at how dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains—turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all!
Comparing CD1 & C57 male mice, we found strain-specific dominance behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab…🧵
Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9

25.11.2024 17:25 👍 193 🔁 63 💬 8 📌 3

#ProudPI 😍

27.11.2024 11:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pharmacogenetic activation of these neurons in stressed males restored social interest and reduced aggression. @deeplabcut.bsky.social

26.11.2024 22:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The long-term consequences of #EarlyLifeStress include a reduction in SST+ neuron activity in the MeA of males, linked to altered #SocialBehavior

26.11.2024 22:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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How does #EarlyLifeStress shape #SocialBehavior? What are the underlying #Neurobiological mechanisms? 🧠

26.11.2024 22:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Activation of somatostatin neurons in the medial amygdala reverses long-term aggression and social deficits associated to early-life stress in male mice Molecular Psychiatry - Activation of somatostatin neurons in the medial amygdala reverses long-term aggression and social deficits associated to early-life stress in male mice

🚨Exciting news from our lab! Our latest study is published in @molpsychiatry! rdcu.be/d1dZW 🎉Big kudos to the team, specially to @aroamanasojeda.bsky.social , who worked very hard to get this paper out! #NESTLab_UJI #REISestres #fcs_UJI #Stress #MentalHealth #SocialBehavior 👇🧵

26.11.2024 22:44 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1