Jennifer Tsai

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In fact, DSM-5 and the pharmaceutical industry have a significant number of connections: One study found that 70 percent of DSM-5 task-force members have financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fifth Edition: Why will half the U.S. population have a mental illness?
The development of blood-brain barrier-penetrant small molecules that activate or inhibit enzymes controlling ECM synthesis or degradation would unlock the potential for precise control over the ECM to an extent that is not currently possible
Mind the Matrix: Looking Beyond Old Cells in Brain Aging
It will be easier if you can overcome your social fear of looking stupid or incomprehensible. Wanting to be understood by others, or not wanting to contradict ourselves and our established identity
Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
Now whenever I hit a block, I ask myself if troubleshooting will take as much effort as starting something new. If so, it’s usually time to kill it and try to find something better
When to Give Up - Ideas Matter
Fear memory and expression relies on the coordinated activity in the mPFC and BLA. The joint respiratory modulation of prefrontal and amygdala circuits might contribute to this coordination during fear behavior.
Breathing coordinates cortico-hippocampal dynamics in mice during offline states | Nature Communications
breathing acts as an oscillatory pacemaker, persistently coupling distributed brain circuit dynamics
Breathing coordinates cortico-hippocampal dynamics in mice during offline states | Nature Communications
the ability to patiently configure your own path according to self-knowledge
ambitious women - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nix
Climbing up the right hill is more important than simply climbing.
ambitious women - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nix
You also have to know your place. You have to believe that they already contain great ideas, and that with a few pointed questions, you can pull it out of them
how to coparent baby ideas - by Anson Yu
optoacoustic12 and fluorescence13 imaging, use reporters to enable brain imaging with subcellular spatial resolution at millisecond timescales and have been widely adopted for in vivo interrogations of neuronal activity
Engineered serum markers for non-invasive monitoring of gene expression in the brain | Nature Biotechnology
ultrasound imaging, great strides have been made in enhancing contrast through the application of genetically encoded air-filled gas vesicles (GVs)
Engineered serum markers for non-invasive monitoring of gene expression in the brain | Nature Biotechnology
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can visualize gene expression throughout the whole brain with submillimeter spatial resolution using genetically encoded contrast agents
Engineered serum markers for non-invasive monitoring of gene expression in the brain | Nature Biotechnology
Finishers are always monsters”—that is, behind every completed oeuvre is a trail of broken promises to people you love
🌻 tryhard - by Jasmine Sun - half-baked futures
It’s staying vulnerable while not being angered at the world for expecting that of you. It’s responsibility co-mingled with ambition. Girlhood is realizing that there is a game, and womanhood is deciding what parts you actually want to play.
look what the cat brought in - by Anson Yu
hey there’s no way you could do work like this anymore
Science is a strong-link problem - by Adam Mastroianni
cellular diversity along several axes and discovered a surprisingly early diversification of alpha (α) and gamma (γ) motor neuron identity, highlighting differences in species-specific developmental timing
Landscape of human spinal cord cell type diversity at midgestation | bioRxiv
cell and network level defects associated with genetic and environmental perturbations at early, previously inaccessible but critical stages of thalamocortical crosstalk in human development and, ultimately, to be used for testing of therapeutics.
Human assembloids reveal the consequences of CACNA1G gene variants in the thalamocortical pathway | bioRxiv
multi-level assessment of genetic disease variants, including cell type-specific effects in regionalized organoids to inter-regional interactions in assembloids and the consequences (and potential compensation) in thalamocortical networks
Human assembloids reveal the consequences of CACNA1G gene variants in the thalamocortical pathway | bioRxiv
human brain is shaped by sensory experiences that lab-grown tissues do not have access to.
The rise of the assembloid
Learning how to do science is a mysterious, ineffable process where you must spend a lot of time hanging out with someone who knows the ropes and other people who also want to know the ropes. It is only through this process that you can hone your intuitions, your most precious research abilities. Science must be expressed honestly, in the voice of the person who did the work, in words that any interested person can understand, and in a place where they can access it. It is only through this freedom that you can fully cultivate your ideas.
Let’s build a fleet and change the world
enlarging my olfactory bulb so I can sniff out bullshit, sharpening my retinal cells so I can spot flaws in my own reasoning, tightening my eardrums so I can hear when a sentence sounds right
Let’s build a fleet and change the world
the best way to explore is to have many ships going in all different directions, not one ship that can only go in one direction
Let’s build a fleet and change the world
To an astounding extent, research is about emotional self-management.
Quick thoughts on research
PhD students often think their advisors will help them with how to solve a problem, but the much more important thing they do is help them find problems which: (a) are tractable; (b) of some importance; (c) will help them develop; and (d) help them know what to ignore.
Quick thoughts on research
Cynicism about your work is incredibly destructive. If you find yourself getting cynical, be prepared to make drastic changes to your environment. Start small, but: change supervisor, change city, change field, do something. Ditto burnout, though for different reasons.
Quick thoughts on research
This seems great and peaceful, though you notice their toes have grown wide and strong - too big to fit comfortably into storebought shoes anymore. You wonder if being barefoot so long has actually made it harder to find shoes that don’t hurt.
relationship shoes - by Aella - Knowingless
They’ve all done things, often beautiful things, in a context that was already set out before them, which they had no inclination to disturb. Without being aware of it, they’ve remained prisoners of those invisible and despotic circles which delimit the universe of a certain milieu in a given era. To have broken these bounds they would have had to rediscover in themselves that capability which was their birth-right, as it was mine: the capacity to be alone.
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
Original ideas don't come from trying to have original ideas. They come from trying to build or understand something slightly too difficult
How to Do Great Work
a field should become increasingly interesting as you learn more about it. If it doesn't, it's probably not for you.
How to Do Great Work
ry lots of things, meet lots of people, read lots of books, ask lots of questions.
How to Do Great Work
curiosity, delight, and the desire to do something impressive
How to Do Great Work
If you're excited about some possibility that everyone else ignores, and you have enough expertise to say precisely what they're all overlooking, that's as good a bet as you'll find.
How to Do Great Work
both anatomical tracing and tractography studies have shown that each ANT subnucleus has a slightly different pattern of efferent connections, subserving different aspects of emotion, cognition and memory
Deep brain stimulation of thalamic nuclei for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy: Are we confident with the precise surgical target? - ScienceDirect
The combination of functions implies dynamic relations between differing cognitive processes; spatial processing and attention are deployed during episodic memory encoding and consolidation
The anterior thalamic nuclei: core components of a tripartite episodic memory system | Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Our Review prompts the question of whether the anterior thalamic nuclei have one paramount function that largely explains their significance for memory or whether their importance arises from multiple contributions to memory, spatial processing and attention
The anterior thalamic nuclei: core components of a tripartite episodic memory system | Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Timp1, Gap43, Hspb1, Lcn2 and Gfap
Neuroinflammatory astrocyte subtypes in the mouse brain | Nature Neuroscience
Although Cluster 4 is identified in the control and inflamed mouse brain, only after LPS injection does it express the inflammatory genes above—validating our earlier finding that LPS-responsive reactive astrocytes do not necessarily lose their physiological identity
Neuroinflammatory astrocyte subtypes in the mouse brain | Nature Neuroscience
Specifically, we applied k-means clustering to cluster spots according to the log-normalized coordinates in the lower-dimensional representation given by H.
Alignment and integration of spatial transcriptomics data | Nature Methods
People change in four seasons: when they hurt enough they have to, when they see enough they are inspired to, when they learn enough that they want to, and when they receive enough that they are able to.
making decisions - by Ava - bookbear express
decellularized human brain tissue-derived brain extracellular matrix (BEM) and dynamic microfluidic systems
Microfluidic device with brain extracellular matrix promotes structural and functional maturation of human brain organoids | Nature Communications
depends on the intrinsic ability of pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) to spontaneously self-organize upon precisely timed manipulation of culture conditions even in the absence of external patterning factors
Microfluidic device with brain extracellular matrix promotes structural and functional maturation of human brain organoids | Nature Communications
Another critical limitation is the extensive cell death in the developing organoids at later stages due to diffusional limitations in oxygen and nutrient transfer4,8.
Microfluidic device with brain extracellular matrix promotes structural and functional maturation of human brain organoids | Nature Communications
Due to the lack of instructive signals during the generation of human cerebral organoids, they recapitulate only some of the earliest stages of human embryonic brain development5 and are not able to mimic the later stages of neurogenesis until extended cultivation for 6–9 months
Microfluidic device with brain extracellular matrix promotes structural and functional maturation of human brain organoids | Nature Communications
When we surround ourselves with open-minded people, we are able to live the life of our intuition. We act on what feels right before we can convince ourselves otherwise.
Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
You know you will change and grow, you acknowledge you don’t know for certain where you’re going, and your friends are the people you most want to share that journey with.
Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
It’s a matter of giving your interactions enough time and care to discover these.
Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - by Eli Qian
RNA velocity is a high-dimensional vector that predicts the future state of individual cells on a timescale of hours.
RNA velocity of single cells | Nature
This feels like the kind of work I was placed on this earth to do.
How do we heal? - by Kasra - Bits of Wonder
When I clash with people, it’s also about how they see the world. The degree of idealism, the degree of pragmatism, the degree of agency. How loving a person should be, what it means to be loving, what it means to be ethical. What they read and what they don’t.
seeking clarity - by Ava - bookbear express
At some point, I realized there are certain games you can never win, and I resolved to stop playing those games.”
Things You Learn Dating Cate Hall - by Sasha Chapin