Romain Ligneul

France-based academics: you've certainly heard of the web tool Resana, and you're possibly using it already.
It is useful, but the lack of an English version is a major downside for our community. You can vote to request this functionality:
resana-feedback-1e5w0ygb.featureupvote.com/suggestions/...

A mini summary of #NeuroFrance2025 highlights 3/10

First day was dedicated to "From well-being to neuropsychiatric disorders: new insights on the reward circuit" and to the "Prefrontal neuromodulation for adaptive behaviour" with great talks by
@causalself.bsky.social
(recruiting!) and A Petitbon

Registrations for the Symposium for the Biology of decision making (SBDM) in Lyon 2025 are finally open! sbdm2025.github.io Please spread the message!

Serotonin In this primer, Ligneul and Mainen delve into the multifaceted nature of the brain’s serotonin system, detailing essential characteristics of serotonin signaling, its critical role in behavior regulation, its contribution to mental health and diseases, and its evolutionary significance.

I've just created the Bluesky Serotonin starter pack but I did not find many people. Poke me if you are part of the crew!
I'll start by resharing this short piece written in 2023.
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Open-access neuroscience comes to the classroom: Q&A with Liz Kirby Neuroscience textbooks can be prohibitively expensive for some undergraduate students. A new open-access alternative seeks to change that.

Neuroscience textbooks can be prohibitively expensive for some undergraduate students. A new open-access alternative seeks to change that. @franciscorr25.bsky.social sat down for a Q&A with @thekirbylab.bsky.social to discuss open-access neuroscience in the classroom.

bit.ly/49zLSWA

Really nice to see so many members of the neuroscience community leave X to join Bluesky 🥳
This self-organized worldwide digital migration gives me hope!

Very interesting afternoon session at the 2024 Foraging Conference in Lyon with Matthew Rushworth, Miko Watabe-Uchida and Ethan Bromberg-Martin. Great topics for cross-species work in neuroscience!
foragingconf.sciencesconf.org

Expansion of epileptogenic networks via neuroplasticity in neural mass models Author summary Repetitive epileptic activity leads to a large variety of plastic changes in brain. Understanding the mechanism and its time course can indicate windows of opportunity for preventing th...

Elif Köksal Ersöz, a recently recruited researcher at INRIA in the team, has just published a paper in PLoS Computational Biology on her work done in Rennes with Fabrice Wendling. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...