Alexandra Nelson @NelsonLabUCSF
Neuroscientist/Neurologist at UCSF. Our lab investigates the cellular and circuit mechanisms of motor control, and how they go awry in movement disorders. nelsonlab.ucsf.edu Joined September 2021-
Tweets28
-
Followers586
-
Following32
-
Likes14
In this new preprint, Emily Twedell (PhD student) and colleagues identify a functional role for the inhibitory synapses between striatal projection neurons -- shaping striatal ensembles to promote healthy action selection. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
If you are a student or postdoc, we encourage you to also apply to the associated Parkinson's Gordon Seminar (GRS). Held the day before the conference, the GRS helps trainees learn more about the field and network to gear up for the main meeting.grc.org/parkinson-s-di…
We are excited to announce the 2025 Parkinson's Gordon Conference, which will be held in June 2025 in New Hampshire! Our speakers will touch on pathogenesis and pathophysiology, at cellular/molecular and circuit levels. We hope to see you there! grc.org/parkinson-s-di…
Xiaowen and I have had great support on this project from the @ParkinsonDotOrg, @NINDSfunding, @ASAP_Research
Congratulations to Nelson Lab postdoctoral fellow Xiaowen Zhuang on her preprint describing a new mouse model of Impulse Control Disorder in Parkinson's Disease! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Xiaowen found that parkinsonian mice treated with a dopamine agonist medication developed impulsive behavior on a delay discounting task, similar to what is seen in Parkinson's. She went on to show that inhibition of striatal indirect pathway neurons is a key mechanism.
ASAP Team Edwards gathered at UC San Francisco to share our science and plan the next steps for our team! @KhaliqLab @LernerLab @ASAP_Research
@AllyGirasole @NeuroMikeRyan @RoseCreed1 @sschamiloglu @e_twedell @didiaam @OliviaBarnhill1
SFN Nelson Lab Lunch! Look how we’ve grown. So proud of alumni and current lab members!
Compared to their neighbors, these neurons are more sensitive to dopamine and have stronger excitatory synaptic input from the motor cortex and thalamus. Their results suggest significant heterogeneity (functionally and physiologically) within a single striatal cell type (3/3).
In this manuscript, Mike and Ally used an activity-dependent tool to label a subset of striatal neurons that are activated during dyskinesia, then investigated why these neurons have exceptionally high firing during dyskinesia (2/3).
Congratulations to @NeuroMikeRyan and @AllyGirasole for their new manuscript on striatal activity and connectivity in a mouse model of Parkinson's Disease and levodopa-induced dyskinesia. Thanks to our collaborators at NIH, including Chip Gerfen! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
UCSF is hiring new Neuroscience faculty! If you study addiction, neuromodulation, or related brain circuitry, we'd love to see your application for this position: aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF04147
Join us for the 2023 Parkinson's GRC! Our program of amazing speakers from all over the world is now posted, and we encourage scientists interested in the basal ganglia and Parkinson's disease to apply: grc.org/parkinson-s-di…
Congratulations to Selin, Kevin, and Jennifer on their exciting new preprint on how antipsychotic medications might work!
Proud to be working with @MaluTansey organizing the 2023 Parkinson's GRC in Switzerland! Excited to have many junior scientists join us, share their amazing work, and network. Sign up soon and submit an abstract!
Happy to share our latest study from the @BJunDing lab recently published in @NeuroCellPress! We show that motor learning selectively induces synaptic plasticity at inputs and outputs of behavior-relevant neurons in motor cortex. cell.com/neuron/fulltex…
@guy_bouvier @CNRS @Inserm @AgenceRecherche @NeuroPSI_saclay Congratulations! Well-deserved recognition for such a creative and careful scientist.
@NeuroBender In this paper, Jon and team investigated how subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation might alleviate motor symptoms in a mouse model of Parkinson's Disease, using electrical stimulation and in vivo GCaMP fiber photometry
Congratulations to Nelson and Bender Lab (@NeuroBender) members, led by former graduate student Jon Schor on our manuscript on deep brain stimulation just published in eLife! doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…
Vijay Mohan K Nambood... @vijay_mkn
2K Followers 513 Following Associate Prof in Neurology (AARG) at UCSF Previously postdoc in Stuber lab at UW and UNC; PhD from Shuler lab at Johns Hopkins
Ali Mohebi @mohebial
2K Followers 1K Following Dopamine. Science. Technology. Reason. Photography. Baking. Films. Psych Prof @UWpsych
Christopher Moore @cimoore444
3K Followers 4K Following
Christian Lüscher @LUSCHERC
7K Followers 733 Following Neuroscientist & Neurologist with an interest in photography
Zayd Khaliq @KhaliqLab
2K Followers 525 Following Dopaminergic system, cellular/circuit neurophysiology. Senior Investigator @NINDSnews. Views my own.
Tom Faust @FaustTW
236 Followers 756 Following Formerly in academia @berke_lab @UCSF. Now in industry at Neurona Therapeutics. Dad to Theo and Leona. negligent mushroom hunter.
Josh Goldberg Lab �... @GoldbergLab
1K Followers 2K Following PD cellular physiology of BG, combine ephys, imaging & mathematical modeling. Now resisting Bibi’s dictatorship.
Gilad Silberberg @SilberbergGilad
1K Followers 579 Following Professor at the Department of Neuroscience @Karolinskainst.
The Yttri Lab @YttriLab
2K Followers 834 Following Interrogating the functional interactions of motor and decision circuits that lead to behavior. (he/lab - not official)
Britton Sauerbrei @bsauerbrei1
3K Followers 4K Following Neurophysiologist working on motor control and neural population dynamics. Assistant Prof. at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Tony Zador @TonyZador
12K Followers 2K Following Neuroscientist at CSHL. Interests: neuroAI, molecular connectomics, & cortical circuits underlying decisions. Co-founder of Cosyne and NAISys meetings.
Giang Nguyen @nygiang_
0 Followers 25 Following
S.K.Dhanya @Dhanya_SK
278 Followers 411 Following DBT-MK Bhan Young Researcher from Dr. Bhavana Muralidharan Lab @mbhavana10 @DBT_inStem PhD graduate from Prof. Gaiti Hasan Lab @GaitiHasan @NCBS
Kha Le @KhaLe2804
3 Followers 138 Following
Michael Russell @MichaelRus53261
5 Followers 44 Following
Eva Bush @dontyoueva
11 Followers 62 Following Exercise Science student at Oakland University. Certified Personal Trainer, USAW- Level 1 Coach
Ayşenur Akbulut @AyenurA65811426
0 Followers 46 Following MD Ankara University School of Medicine🎓 Research in Neuroscience 🧠
Jaeden O'Connell @JaedenC99277
143 Followers 3K Following
Aisha @AISHA1414_000
202 Followers 592 Following Grace in her heart, fire in her soul 🔥 | Balancing life with style and a smile 😊
Alissa Higinbotham, M... @AlissaHigMD
2K Followers 1K Following Movement Disorders Neurologist, Associate Program Director @UVANeurology | Alumnus @CWRUNeuro @WVUMedSchool @WakeForest | #NeuroX #MovementDisorders #MedEd
Shoeb Lallani @sblallani
290 Followers 400 Following Resident @Stanford_Neuro | @UABHeersink 2022 | @EmoryUniversity 2017 | 📸 🏔️ 📖 ☕ | he/his/him | opinions are my own
Diana Cohen @SarahDubois0
262 Followers 261 Following Medical Commissioner 💔 Divorced 🤦♀️ (Viva la Libertad?) 😆) 🏋️♂️ Fitness enthusiast | ⛳ Golf enthusiast | 🧘♀️ Yoga practitioner
Laxmi @Laxmi__Yadav
128 Followers 266 Following PhD student @Zimmer_Lab (behavior in worms) @UniVienna | Former Research Fellow @DDlab_TIFR Mumbai
Shanshan (Amber) Han @amberHan99
44 Followers 469 Following UKDRI University of Edinburgh RA, In vivo calcium imaging, Spatial navigation, Hippocampus, Computation
Kassidy @KassidyThiel
4 Followers 40 Following
Donghoon Shin @shinapses
44 Followers 277 Following PhD student at @UCSF Frank lab | @BerkeleyBioE | Interested in understanding principles of intelligence | previously: @GeorgiaTech_ECE, @coulterBME, KAIST
Mohammad Jodeiri Fars... @MohammadJodeiri
57 Followers 351 Following
Shaun Sze-Xian Lim @szexianlim
68 Followers 560 Following MD-PhD Student in Tadross Lab @miketadross | Duke BME @DukeEngineering | Duke-NUS Medical School @dukenus | Developing molecular tools for neuroscience
Rurferey @Rurferey75EggX
26 Followers 858 Following
Valentin Plateau @ValentinPlateau
15 Followers 60 Following Ph.D - Electrophysiology, behaviour, basal ganglia - Maxime Assous' lab - Cardiff University
Anders Borgkvist @AndersBorgkvist
51 Followers 63 Following Neuroscientist, basal ganglia, @karolinskainst.
Luan @mont_luan_
2 Followers 149 Following
Drew Schreiner @SchreinerDrew
511 Followers 816 Following | learning | neuroethology | basal ganglia | birdsong | K99/R00 Postdoc Rich Mooney @DukeNeuro | PhD Christina Gremel @UCSD https://t.co/iWyru7EaWW
Jared Cregg @j_cregg
2K Followers 2K Following Neuroscientist 🧠🔬 studying motor control. Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience & Neurology @UWMadison
Dehorter Lab @DehorterLab
1K Followers 943 Following The lab aims at understanding how neurons adapt their activity during development and in disease
Emma Kragelund Christ... @emma_kragelund
4 Followers 65 Following
Sinchana Vaasanthi (�... @Sinch_Vaasanthi
21 Followers 127 Following Cognitive Science| Motor Control and Adaptation| IIT Gandhinagar
Brian @BrianZakrz73986
15 Followers 39 Following
Hannah Baldwin @baldwin_ha0126
9 Followers 25 Following
Jacques YJ CHEN @Aplysiac
2 Followers 24 Following 🧠 25fall/ seeking for PhD position/ ephys/ neuron ensemble/computational
ngh @ngh_op13
4 Followers 702 Following
e-INS @INSeuro
285 Followers 955 Following The 5th Joint Congress of the INS European Chapters (#eINS2027) will be held in Brussels, Belgium on 26-29 May 2027. #neuromodulation
Jenn Tsai @jennifertsai_
785 Followers 719 Following daydreaming & playing with neurons @ucberkeley @ucsf 🧚♀️
Prabhleen kaur @KaurPrabh130
523 Followers 6K Following CSIR-SRF PhD Scholar at IGIB A Science enthusiast aspiring to explore and expand my knowledge in the field of biology.
Varun Venkataramani @VarunVenkatara2
2K Followers 905 Following Brain Tumor Researcher, Neurologist and Neuroscientist @uniklinik_hd #PhysicianScientist #CancerNeuroscience #DigitalHealth #AI #MethodsDevelopment
JoeBiophys @JBiophys
321 Followers 4K Following Ion channels, physiology, protein dynamics/energy, 1O2, and any interesting topics cross my path: Nankai Unv. CAMS/PUMC @UWMadison @Columbia @VCU. Now at SZBL.
Ioannis Mantas @Ioannis_Mantas
147 Followers 301 Following Post-doctoral researcher interested in the neuroscience of Parkinson's disease, Major depressive disorder and schizophrenia.
Arnold Abakah @ArnoldAbakah
200 Followers 1K Following Msc Bioinformatics @WACCBIP_UG || BSc. Biochemistry @KNUSTGH || Immunology Enthusiast || Founder of NextGenScienceNetwork || STEAM Advocate #FirstGen
Michael Higley 🧠�... @mjhigley
2K Followers 705 Following Professor, Yale Neuroscience|BME|Psychiatry, Cellular electrophysiologist and imager of cortical circuits, Dada of two boys.
Marceline Hayes @Marcelinehaye
11 Followers 418 Following I am Marceline Hayes, a motivated and results-oriented professional with four years of experience in the field of conference management.
JNP @JNeurophysiol
6K Followers 6K Following JNP is the Journal of #Neurophysiology--a multidisciplinary #neuroscience journal and leading source of original research. An @APSPhysiology journal. 🧠
Alexandra (Allie) D. ... @AllieDWSullivan
379 Followers 428 Following Studying how stress & parenting impact health | Postdoc @IDHPtweets @UCSFPsychiatry | Licensed (CA) | Child Clinical Psych PhD @UVMPsychology @CHSConsortium
Aditya Behal @beha3672
0 Followers 4 Following
Steffen Wolff @SBE_Wolff
860 Followers 449 Following Neuroscientist. Assistant Professor @UMmedschool. Studying motor learning in hope of becoming a better beach volleyball player. @[email protected]
Ali Mohebi @mohebial
2K Followers 1K Following Dopamine. Science. Technology. Reason. Photography. Baking. Films. Psych Prof @UWpsych
Christian Lüscher @LUSCHERC
7K Followers 733 Following Neuroscientist & Neurologist with an interest in photography
Zayd Khaliq @KhaliqLab
2K Followers 525 Following Dopaminergic system, cellular/circuit neurophysiology. Senior Investigator @NINDSnews. Views my own.
Gilad Silberberg @SilberbergGilad
1K Followers 579 Following Professor at the Department of Neuroscience @Karolinskainst.
Rebekah Evans @cellularscale
2K Followers 1K Following Assistant Professor @Georgetown University Department of Neuroscience
Kilian Dekoninck, Ph.... @KDekoninck
145 Followers 279 Following Micronaut 👨🚀 Postdoc @TraxLab @UCBerkeley. #actinomycete Previously in the @JFClab @deDuveInstitute #ecoli #bacteria ORCID: https://t.co/QQ2ZAc09d2
Rui Costa @ruimcosta
7K Followers 552 Following The wanderer. The clown. The chairman. President and CEO, Allen Institute. Opinions are my own.
Aligning Science Acro... @ASAP_Research
2K Followers 338 Following Global initiative accelerating #ParkinsonDisease research. Join us on LinkedIn and Bluesky.
EdwardsLab-UCSF @EdwardsLab_UCSF
159 Followers 91 Following Lab run twitter account of the Edwards Lab at UCSF! We study the Synaptic Basis of Behavior.
Anne Churchland @anne_churchland
23K Followers 1K Following How do brains make decisions? To find out, we ponder behavior, neural activity and machine intelligence
HDSA Pacific Region @HDSApacific
96 Followers 9 Following Follow any updates regarding the Huntington's Disease Society of America Pacific Region.
HuntingtonStudyGroup @HuntingtonSG
2K Followers 477 Following Accelerating treatments that make a difference for Huntington's disease.
Therese Crutcher-Mari... @crutchertherese
628 Followers 393 Following I'm a Huntington's Disease advocate, President for HDSA SF Bay Area Chapter, a retired healthcare professional & author of Watching Their Dance.
HDBuzz @HDBuzzFeed
6K Followers 2K Following Huntington’s disease research news. In plain language. Written by scientists. Editors @labscribbles @rungenado
HDSA @HDSA
6K Followers 1K Following The Huntington’s Disease Society of America is the premier nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of everyone affected by Huntington’s disease.
C. Savio Chan @csaviochan
4K Followers 4K Following Associate professor @NorthwesternU. Basal ganglia, dopamine, motor control, Parkinson’s disease
UCSFNeuroRes @neurores_ucsf
749 Followers 66 Following The Adult and Child Neurology Residencies at the University of California San Francisco
Susanne Ahmari, MD, P... @ahmari_lab
4K Followers 293 Following Psychiatrist, Neuroscientist, and Nerdy Mom. Sucker for new technology. PI, Translational OCD Lab @PittPsychiatry. Program Director, @WellcomeLeap.
Genia Kozorovitskiy @NUro_science
2K Followers 1K Following Associate Prof. at Northwestern, Neurobiology. Wild for neuroplasticity & neuromodulation. Mother, foodie, wino, runner. P'ton/Harvard Med School/Northwestern.
Aryn Gittis @ArynGittis
905 Followers 94 Following Professor; Biological Sciences and Neuroscience Institute
Anna Gillespie @ak_gillespie
1K Followers 784 Following Assistant professor @UW_NBIO & @uwlabmedpath, University of Washington | former postdoc in Loren Frank's lab @UCSF | BRAIN Initiative K99/R00
Anatol Kreitzer @AnatolKreitzer
3K Followers 348 Following Chief Discovery Officer, MapLight Therapeutics
UCSF Neuroscience Gra... @UCSFNSGrad
849 Followers 354 Following Official twitter account of the UCSF Neuroscience Program https://t.co/qgWcaSaflO [email protected] - Tweeters are Lucita, Pat, Sam
Kira Poskanzer @KiraPoskanzer
2K Followers 559 Following Founder-in-Residence @ArcadiaScience. Associate Professor @UCSF. Astrocytes and neurons. Co-founder @trovebiolabs
Jeanne Paz @JeanneTPaz
719 Followers 623 Following Associate Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease & Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco. Opinions are my own.
Lisa Gunaydin @lisa_gunaydin
3K Followers 1K Following Associate Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in anxiety and trauma | Recovering academic and professor with a PhD in Neuroscience | Tweets not advice
BevanLab @lab_bevan
910 Followers 626 Following Basal ganglia lab with a focus on neurons, synapses, and circuits in health and mouse models of Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease. Tweets by Mark.
Emily Twedell @e_twedell
114 Followers 203 Following @UCSF Neuroscience PhD Student @GrinnellCollege Alum '15 she/her/hers
Rose Creed @RoseCreed1
260 Followers 148 Following Postdoc in Alexandra Nelson's lab (@NelsonLabUCSF) ; @UABGBS PhD alum (labs of Matt Goldberg and Lori McMahon)
Ally Girasole @AllyGirasole
868 Followers 1K Following Mom | Wife | Neuroscientist @harvardmed in the Sabatini lab, formerly @NelsonLabUCSF | Buffalo native, #billsmafia | she/herYou might like
