Assistant Professor @MountSinaiPsych ▪Brain+Body interactions in stress/fear/metabolism Lab ▪Yogā▪ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known"🧠🌌

Nepal/UofM/UW-Mad/UCLA/Sinai
Happy International Yoga Day. Yoga is often seen as stretching, flexibility, or posture. But in its deeper meaning, yoga is a path of integration, wholeness, and awareness.
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An invigorating meeting all around including yoga practice and dancing with Stephanie Correa and Alexandra Klein. Already looking forward to attending this meeting again! ✨
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It was especially wonderful to see graduate students Sanutha and Pam share their work on breathing, stress and energy metabolism and receive thoughtful feedback.
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It was an absolute pleasure attending, presenting and learning at the @cshlmeetings Brain–Body Physiology meeting, organized by Kara Marshall, @RibeiroCarlitos, and @rolls_asya. An amazing conference bringing the science of brain–organ interactions together in one place.
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Thank you, @wasuzuki for bringing such connection, joy, and flow to our retreat this year. Sometimes what scientists need most is to get out of our heads and back into the body. The smiles say it all. 🙏✨
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Faculty speakers @SwirskiLab @IgnacioSaezPhD and Gita Pathak and all the postdoc and student speakers. Special thank you to @PaulKennyPhD, Veronica Szarejko Danny Roldan and all others who helped organize this retreat! ✨
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The @SinaiBrain retreat on Friday brought amazing speakers working on the brain and the body at the historic Riverside Church! Thank you to our keynote speakers @IshmailSaboor and @wasuzuki .
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Great conversations and food bridging basic and translational aspects of interoception with @KhalsaLab, Laura Berner, and Rita Goldstein! Thank you for visiting Sahib✨
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An insightful, holistic and invigorating talk by @KhalsaLab on the brain and body communication for anxiety, eating disorders and more for our @SinaiBrain brain body seminar series. #brainbody
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Such an incredible night filled with personal, emotional, and deeply moving stories of science and beyond. Grateful to everyone who came, supported and shared, and to @SinaiBrain for supporting this event! 🙏✨
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If you live or are visiting NY city then join us for an incredible night of stories of science and more tomorrow 6-8 PM. @SinaiBrain Link to join: lnkd.in/e3e3X8wr
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Another amazing Brain Awareness Week by @SinaiBrain, with our lab members representing the Brain–Body Research Institute and the CEYE program. It is always inspiring to engage with students and the broader community, especially during these difficult times!
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How much are our hearts craving peace in this time/moment? The monks walking for peace are following Buddha’s path (≠ religion). When humanity seems to be lost, this is quite a contrast reminder of peace, clarity, compassion, non-harm within ourselves and others as a choice!
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Such a pleasure meeting @KevinJTraceyMD, hearing his talk, and discussing the #vagusnerve. Grateful he signed The Great Nerve in my office with Vesalius’ vagus illustration behind us! The vagus is central to our lab’s work, and my yoga teaching on parasympathetic regulation. 🙏
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Beautiful time spent with two of my favorite humans and scientists @msahsorin and @MitoPsychoBio! Thanks to @ACNPorg #energy
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So wonderful to meet Nirosha Murugan @msahsorin in person in NYC. Check out her Radiolab podcast on Biophotons ✨: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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The pale blue dot-Carl Sagan Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, …..#carlsagan
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Lancet Neurology article emphasizing lifestyle interventions including nutrition, sleep, stress management and exercise for not only symptom management but also disease modification in Parkinson’s. Lifestyle is not fringe! thelancet.com/journals/laneu…
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An amazing collection of brain-body interaction articles in this special issue. Love the beautiful vagus nerve on the cover by Andreas Vesalius cell.com/current-biology/cur…
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Happy #Diwali to all who celebrate! First public school holiday in NYC. 🪔✨ Diwali reminds us to shine our inner light, illuminating wisdom and dispelling the darkness of ego, division, and ignorance. In Nepal, during Diwali the friendship and love of dogs is also celebrated.
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Academic path isn’t easy, but the joy of discovery, finding possibilities for healing and mentoring trainees keeps me going. Celebrating submitting 2 manuscripts on brain–body stress interactions & a master’s thesis defense. Grateful to my lab & special thanks to @neuromano 🙏✨
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Also such a fun team activity in ‘building the strongest bridge’ with papers and tape in 30 minutes. Creativity with @SwirskiLab @cam_phd @GoedekeLeigh Sanutha Shetty and many others! A strong bridge indeed 🙌
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So amazing that our graduate student Sanutha Shetty presented her work on the role of #breathing circuits on stress-related cardiometabolic outcomes at the Cardiovascular Research Institute Retreat and won a best trainee talk award! @SinaiBrain 🙌
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Incredible to see growing science on yogā-postures, breathwork, and meditation— for brain injury, metabolism, pain, reproductive health, pregnancy etc at Neuroscience and Yogā conference. Ancient interoceptive wisdom on body, mind, thought awareness is holistic medicine!
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Another year of a fantastic night filled with stories of science — stories that inspired, connected, and reminded us of the human spirit! Thank you, @EricJNestler, @PaulKennyPhD, @SinaiBrain, @AyaOsman, Denise Croote, @storycollider , and all the storytellers!
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Meet the experts @MAparvaz and Jinye Dai!
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Amid everything happening against science, it’s humbling to share our understanding of the world comes through science itself! Kicking off #BrainAwarenessWeek with these incredible minds! Our lab is always excited to share the importance of #brainbody interactions. @SinaiBrain
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Thankful to our entire team of amazing beings (from our recent holiday get-together)! ✨
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First time attending the #ACNP2024 conference and totally doing good in the area of making new friends 🏜️😬
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Such an incredible way to honor dear mentor Michael Fanselow and his contributions to science and mentoring🙏🏽✨! Thank you and so great to see @sjo09 @moriel_z @doctorpoe @StephenMaren @Wiltgenlab and many others. Adding a few more here!
Fabulous Festschrift celebrating the contributions of Michael Fanselow! Great to catch up with ⁦@StephenMaren⁩, ⁦@Wiltgenlab⁩, ⁦@moriel_z⁩, and so many many others. A very touching event!
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Also Happy Deepawali 🪔 to all celebrating. Lighting the lamp of knowledge removes the darkness of ignorance ✨! #Diwali2024
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Our Brain Body lab’s first pumpkin 🎃 carving! Spooky fun! Missed our RA Benjamin Keller.
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Really amazing chairing a session on the locus coeruleus in behavior and physiology @PavlovSociety conference. Thank you to all the speakers! @Sciolino_Lab @akaye @thiagoarzua Lissa Riley ✨
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Our @ceyemountsinai student Gabriela Picazo gave each lab member a gift of🪴 that also match our characters as she heads to Brown University! Gabby has been such a special team member of our @BrainBody_Lab 🙏🏽✨.
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Celebrating grad student Sanutha Shetty receiving travel award for @HHMIJanelia workshop on brain body communication, Gabriela Picazo @ceyemountsinai student going to Brown University, and a manuscript acceptance!! Academic path is a bumpy ride, but here for the trainees! ✨
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Such a wonderful collaboration between @SinaiBrain and @storycollider for a second year in a row highlighting human interconnectedness through beautiful personal stories that made us laugh and cry! Thank you to all who made this night happen! 🙏🏽✨
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So glad our lab was able to share on the importance of brain body interactions for #brainawarenessweek2024. Thank you @SinaiNeuro for an amazing Brain fair day as always 🧠⚛️ !
The fun continued throughout the afternoon! 🧠💕 #BAW2024 #BrainAwarenessWeek
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Few “unforgettable” family memories were also made with @denisejcai @tristanshuman family 🌊🐟
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So amazing leading/presenting our session on brain and body interactions in stress-related functions at the the Winter Conference in Neuroplasticity. Thank you to @mactrucktire @lindsayschwarz and @iamhans for outstanding talks 🙏🏽✨
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Happy holidays from our @BrainBody_Lab. So grateful to be a mentor to these amazing beings 🙏🏽!
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Looking forward learning more about whole person health by @NCCIH_Director @IcahnMountSinai
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What a pleasure lunching with @ViditaVaidya! Very inspiring human and scientist 🙏🏽.
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Representing Nepali 🇳🇵neuroscientists @SfNtweets #sfn2023 @prerana123 @PrabhatSKunwar and so happy to meet many others this year!
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@BrainBody_Lab and @ShresthaLab labs celebrating our debut and successful poster presentations at @SfNtweets as new PIs! It was the the first time for our trainees attending SfN, and it was an absolute blast! 🧠
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Still time come by our lab’s posters on interoception in stress! 🧠🫀
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Super excited for this meeting on interoception research through @NIH_NCCIH 🙏🏽🌬️🧠🫀🫁
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We are excited to share that our Brain Body Lab will be @SfNtweets. #brainbodycenter. We invite you to visit our posters showcasing new research on interoceptive mechanisms of stress. Join us on November 11th from 1 to 5 PM! 🧠🫀🌬️ Thank you @BrianMSweis !
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Much sadness with the global events lately, so finding gratitude in small things like being able to mentor these amazing humans! Welcoming Pamela Toh, Andrew Fajardo (Masters students) and Gabriela Picazo (@ceyemountsinai student) into our brain body team! 🧠🫀🌬️
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Like minds 🧠 and best color pick for @PavlovSociety #pavlovian2023 with @ZachTPennington @BenSaunders
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