Abha Karki Rajbhandari, PhD

Assistant Professor @MountSinaiPsych ▪Brain+Body interactions in stress/fear/metabolism Lab ▪Yogā▪ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known"🧠🌌

[Abha Karki Rajbhandari, PhD @BrainBody_Lab]

I want to share this research was inspired by me-search: everyday yoga practice that involves breathing and meditation and contemplation to know more biologically!

[Abha Karki Rajbhandari, PhD @BrainBody_Lab]

Excited to share new work from our lab showing, for the first time, a link between breathing dysregulation, stress responses, and energy metabolism via a neuropeptide receptor mechanism.

This opens new ways for understanding brain–body interactions! https://t.co/Yb9NAr9qgW

[Micah G. Allen @micahgallen]

A large-scale mapping study reveals the functional architecture of the human insula, showing how this deep brain region tracks bodily sensations like heat, tingling, and nausea. This work clarifies how the brain integrates internal physiological states into conscious experience.
https://t.co/RDgofVc2mp

[Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD @EricJNestler]

We are thrilled to see @PaulKennyPhD and Anne Schaeffer elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Both are world leaders in neuroscience research whose work has direct implications for better understanding and treating several brain disorders. @SinaiBrain @IcahnMountSinai

[Friedman Brain Institute @SinaiBrain]

🌟 We are thrilled to share that @icahnmountsinai's Drs. @PaulKennyPhD & Anne Schaefer have been elected to @thenamedicine. Election to the Academy is one of the highest honors in fields of health & medicine. We are INCREDIBLY PROUD! HUGE CONGRATULATIONS👉 https://t.co/cpE7atZ0WC

[Doris Tsao @doristsao]

1/ We discovered something totally unexpected about the neural structure of consciousness that overturns decades of thinking on its biological basis and brings us significantly closer to the recipe for generating conscious awareness.
New preprint: https://t.co/K8BwiHXvXg (led by @HesseJanis, with @FrankLanfranchi, @_conor_mcgrory, @Yuelin_Shi, and @EngelTatiana)

[Abha Karki Rajbhandari, PhD @BrainBody_Lab]

A little late, but thrilled about Scott’s appointment as Chair of Neuroscience and the opportunity to strengthen brain–body research. He has been a wonderful mentor, a strong supporter of our lab’s multidisciplinary brain-body work, and an outstanding collaborator. Amazing news!

[Friedman Brain Institute @SinaiBrain]

We are INCREDIBLY EXCITED to share that @ScottRussoPhD has been appointed Chair of #NashNeuroscience @IcahnMountSinai. Dr. Russo is a distinguished neuroscientist, visionary leader & mentor. We couldn't be happier for the Department of Neuroscience! Congratulations, Dr. Russo! 🎉

[Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD @EricJNestler]

This appointment is especially meaningful to me since @ScottRussoPhD first joined my lab then at UT Southwestern at Dallas as a postdoc in 2003 and was my first faculty hire when I moved to @IcahnMountSinai in 2008.

[Scott Russo @ScottRussoPhD]

I’m honored and excited to serve as Chair of the Nash Family Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai! Grateful to follow in the footsteps of @PaulKenny and @EricNestler and build on their incredible legacy. Looking forward to what we’ll achieve together! #Neuroscience

[Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @FiorellaDPC]

1/🧠🫀 What if #interoception is about more than accurately detecting your body?
Our new Opinion in @TrendsCognSci asks a different question: what do bodily signals mean to us?
➡️https://t.co/Oz3OEUZ0G3

[Friedman Brain Institute @SinaiBrain]

Recognizing their pioneering development of #Optogenetics, The Nobel Assembly @karolinskainst has officially awarded the @NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to @KarlDeisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel. Congratulations 👏 Learn More 👉 https://t.co/pYWT9zXIOP

[Brian S. Kim @itchdoctor]

Very important review!

[Neuron @NeuroCellPress]

Online now: Lateral hypothalamic control of the striatal dopamine landscape during consummatory behavior dlvr.​it/TVksFD

[Sahib Khalsa @KhalsaLab]

I’m excited to announce the launch of BPCCIR:
Building the Future of Interoceptive Neuroscience
—a new 5-year, $3.5M NIH Blueprint U24 Coordination Center focused on advancing the science of brain–body communication. 1/3

[Giovanni D'Angelo @Gio_Dangel0]

#lipidtime: It's a lipid universe. Today in Nature we publish the Lipid Brain Atlas, the first map of membrane lipid composition across the entire mouse brain, a layer of organisation that cell-type and transcript maps had left out. #lipidomics #neuroscience #BrainAtlas

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

How regular exercise enhances our immune response.
A multiomic blood assessment (single-cell RNA, epigenetics, metabolites, lipids, and cells) with distinct signature for exercise vs sedentary lifestyle @ScienceAdvances
https://t.co/mcgPrLSyJ5

[Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab]

A hypothalamic circuit links high-fat diet exposure to anxiety-like behavior and anxiety-associated hyperphagia
https://t.co/oVbVbL0kFv

[Sahib Khalsa @KhalsaLab]

Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

[CLaE @leafs_s]

Neuroscience of Consciousness

I sync, therefore I am: brain–body synchrony in typical and disordered consciousness

https://t.co/pcZMIj10bN

[Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab]

Chronic stress-induced hypertension: beyond sympathetic activation to autonomic and psychiatric dysregulation
https://t.co/TnDrWu1SxD

[Leigh Goedeke, PhD @GoedekeLeigh]

@NatRevCardiol thank you for highlighting our work!

@IcahnMountSinai @SinaiHeartBlood

[Nirosha J. Murugan @niroshajmurugan]

You emit light.

Expanding biology beyond molecules allows us to consider another layer of life: how energy, including light, may reflect and perhaps help coordinate biological activity.

Thank you to @JoMarchant and @Nature for featuring our work alongside other leaders in the field, and for opening a broader conversation about what might be possible, the tools we must build, and the next generation of scientists we must train.

Now, we have the opportunity to determine what the light of life is telling us.