@YarCarLab

Principal Investigator at the NIH interested in understanding how the brain modulates pain. Proud Puerto Rican. My views and opinions are my own.

 Bethesda, MD
nccih.nih.gov/research/intramural/carrasquillo-lab
Joined May 2018
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Congratulations to Sudhuman Singh @SudhumanS from @YarCarLab lab and Luis Romero @LuisOctavioR from @CVResearchGroup lab- #SGP2023 meeting Winners for The Best Postdoctoral and Predoctoral posters 🎊🎊 🎈 🎉. Congratulations!
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Martínez-Rivera FJ@FreddysonJ26 Sep 2023
📢Boricua, vas a #SfN2023? No te pierdas el Puerto Rico Social! Riega la voz! @albit_caban, Aranza Torrado & @Bravo0884, @CBravoRivera 🇵🇷🔥💫
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Daniel Kerschensteiner@KLabVision5 Nov 2021
Learn more about our Neuroscience Program at the SFN Graduate School Fair #WashUNeuroPhD @WUSTLdbbs @WashUONR @WUSTL_ENDURE
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Nature Metabolism
@NatMetabolism23 Sep 2023
REVIEW @michael_krashes, @ivancedric_a et al. (@NIDDKgov, @NIH) discuss the central mechanisms that dictate #eating behavior, by dissecting the neural circuits involved in food procurement, consumption, & meal termination 🧠🍽️ nature.com/articles/s42255-0…

Acts of appetite: neural circuits governing the appetitive, consummatory, and terminating phases of...

Nature Metabolism - Alcantara and Miranda-Tapia et al. discuss the central mechanisms that dictate eating behaviour, by dissecting the neural circuits involved in food procurement, food...

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NIH NCCIH@NIH_NCCIH22 Sep 2023
The experience of pain is more than just physical pain. Dr. Carrasquillo (@YarCarLab) is working to improve diagnosis and treatment for chronic pain & studying how perceived pain can be driven by changes in the nervous system: bit.ly/3iQXU86 #NIHPainProgress
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Yavin Shaham@yavinshaham13 Aug 2023
Paper of the week: excellent @npp_journal paper of @YarCarLab (1st au Torres-Rodriguez) on the role of parabrachial nucleus to central amygdala projections in sensitization to neuropathic & inflammatory pain but not baseline pain responses in mice pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3754…

The parabrachial to central amygdala pathway is critical to injury-induced pain sensitization in...

The spino-ponto-amygdaloid pathway is a major ascending circuit relaying nociceptive information from the spinal cord to the brain. Potentiation of excitatory synaptic transmission in the parabrach...

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Jose Moron-Concepcion.@jomoronc16 Mar 2023
Deadline for our Postbacc program at WashU is approaching! Please apply and/or help disseminate. neuroprep.wustl.edu/

WashU Neuroprep

Outstanding training to ready trainees for graduate careers in neuroscience

neuroprep.wustl.edu
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Travis Hage@trav_ha17 Feb 2023
A rhyme for patch-clampers: If your pipette has debris, 'twas not meant to be. But if your pipette is clean, show that cell what you mean.
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¡Ya abrimos solicitudes para el Sagrado #Neuroscience Precollege Program 2023! Esta vez será en persona en PR y Boston. ¡Ayúdanos a regar la voz! @CienciaPR @cetmpr #AcademicTwitter @PRicansInSTEM @YoSoyCiencia @HecDJC elnuevodia.com/suplementos/c…

Programa de neurociencia busca estudiantes de escuela superior

En tres años, el Programa Preuniversitario de Neurociencia, de la Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, ha admitido a 110 estudiantes

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Jose Moron-Concepcion.@jomoronc26 Jan 2023
WUSTL NeuroPREP postbacc program application deadline is fast approaching (Feb 20) please help disseminate this amazing opportunity to mentees and trainees! neuroprep.wustl.edu/

WashU Neuroprep

Outstanding training to ready trainees for graduate careers in neuroscience

neuroprep.wustl.edu
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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor@IshmailSaboor23 Jan 2023
Excited to share my lab’s new paper out today @CellCellPress. "Touch neurons underlying dopaminergic pleasurable touch and sexual receptivity" Congratulations to this amazing team of scientists. cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…
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Poster abstract deadline extended to Monday Jan 16th. Visit Usasp.org for submission details.
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eLife - the journal@eLife7 Dec 2022
"By becoming our university’s next 'poster person' and participating in our own tokenization, we allow institutions to paint a rosy picture and appear more inclusive and supportive than they actually are." Read @RamosNeuro’s story. elifesciences.org/articles/8…
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Yavin Shaham@yavinshaham27 Nov 2022
Paper of the week: excellent (& comprehensive) @eLife paper of @YarCarLab (1st au Sudhuman Singh). They identified a circuit critical to pain-related behaviors in mice that originates in central amygdala PKCδ-expressing neurons & terminates in the ventral region of zona incerta
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Lindsay🧠@neuro_melody13 Nov 2022
Come visit my poster at #SfN2022 Sunday morning session (Poster K1) where I describe our preclinical model of placebo analgesia (expectation driven pain relief)!
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Adelis Cruz@AdelisCruz_PhD12 Nov 2022
Excited to be at #SfN22! 😊 If you have some time between 1-5 pm Wednesday, stop by my poster “Investigating the roles of the intralaminar thalamus and dorsal striatum in punished cocaine seeking in rats.” I’d love to chat!
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Adelis Cruz@AdelisCruz_PhD12 Nov 2022
My amazing undergrad Payton Kahanek is presenting for the first time at #SfN! Come by 1-5 pm on Wednesday to hear about her project “Noncontingent footshock unlike contingent footshock, does not reduce cocaine seeking in rats.” 🐁⚡️
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Jibran Khokhar@DrJKhokhar29 Oct 2022
Great new work from the ⁦@Herman_lab_UNC:⁩ The effects of electronic nicotine vapor on voluntary alcohol consumption in female and male C57BL/6 J mice. Congrats ⁦@MelissaHerman4⁩ ⁦@superrsema⁩! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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REMINDER: Our Program in Neuroscience encourages applications from students from all backgrounds! We are providing application feedback for those identifying as underrepresented in biomedical science, with materials due by Nov 15. See below for info & details on this opportunity!
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📢New paper alert from @KhannaLabNYU @NYUPainResCtr Our paper on Argentatin, a triterpene natural product, which targets multiple NaV and CaV3 channels to curb pain in a post-surgical model is now online @BrJPharmacol bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
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