Mitra Heshmati

This study shows that voluntary social engagement after nerve injury reduces pain sensitivity, but only within a specific time window.

The paper identifies brain-wide neural circuits activated by isoflurane anesthesia and shows chemogenetic manipulation of these circuits reproduces key aspects of unconsciousness.

The paper maps whole-brain neural activity during emergence from isoflurane anesthesia in mice and finds selective subcortical activation rather than global cortical reactivation.

This study identifies a brain-wide neural ensemble involved in anesthesia-induced unconsciousness, with the lateral parabrachial nucleus as a central hub.

The paper introduces an operant social stress procedure to study stress-induced changes in social motivation in male and female mice, finding sex-specific behavioral responses and introducing a social index score to quantify individual differences.