Northeastern University at SfN 2026

Nov 14–18, 2026 Washington, DC ~21k attendees Website

Northeastern University brings 25 presentations to SfN 2026 in Washington. Its posters and talks at this meeting centre on drug effects on brain activity and connectivity, brain injury and recovery, and stress, fear and behavior. One thread examines dose-dependent changes in global brain activity and connectivity after DMT exposure in awake rats.

Organization	SfN 2026 Attendance
Northeastern University Boston, MA
northeastern.edu Universities and research institutes Private research university based in Boston, Massachusetts.	Poster Sat Nov 14 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR022: Stress: Neuroimmunology Stress hormones trigger neutrophil extracellular trap release that contributes to behavioral changes WCC Halls A-C · Board CC7 Poster Sun Nov 15 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR062: Motor Learning: Human (Behavior/Physiology/Imaging) I Left posterior parietal cortex involvement in left-arm adaptation and interlimb transfer WCC Halls A-C · Board DD12 Poster Sun Nov 15 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR067: Functional Imaging and Brain Connectivity Awake Animal MRI: The Drug-Naïve Brain on Psychedelics WCC Halls A-C · Board FF24 Poster Sun Nov 15 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR067: Functional Imaging and Brain Connectivity Ibogaine Induced Dose-Dependent Changes in Global Brain Activity and Connectivity Using fMRI WCC Halls A-C · Board FF25 Poster Sun Nov 15 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR067: Functional Imaging and Brain Connectivity Dose-dependent changes in global brain activity and functional connectivity following exposure to DMT: a BOLD MRI study in awake rats WCC Halls A-C · Board FF26 Poster Sun Nov 15 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR071: Feeding, Metabolism, and Natural Reward Semaglutide Alters Reward Circuit Activation and Connectivity with Partial but Incomplete Normalization After Washout WCC Halls A-C · Board HH30 Poster Sun Nov 15 1–5pm Part of Session LBP007: H.01. Fear and Aversive Learning and Memory Activation of vlPAG MOR+ neurons differentially alter male and female behavior during conditioned fear WCC Halls A-C · Board B4 Poster Mon Nov 16 8am–noon Part of Session LBP019: D.01. Neurotoxicity, Inflammation, and Neuroprotection How have research trends and therapeutic strategies for BBB-penetrant microglial Aβ clearance evolved from 2010 to 2025, and what role does neuroinflammation play in the shifting focus of drug discovery? WCC Halls A-C · Board A24 Poster Mon Nov 16 8am–noon Part of Session LBP026: G.02. Neuroendrocrine Processes and Behavior CRISPR-mediated knockdown of GABA-AR δ-subunits reveals a role for allopregnanolone in altering the parous brain WCC Halls A-C · Board C3 Poster Mon Nov 16 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR131: Brain Injury: Animal Models: Biomarkers and Histology Sensitive period of plasticity emerges after delayed psilocybin treatment for repetitive mild head injury: A preclinical MRI study WCC Halls A-C · Board W14 Poster Mon Nov 16 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR131: Brain Injury: Animal Models: Biomarkers and Histology Investigating the combined effects of chronic herbicide exposure and repetitive mild traumatic brain injury using multimodal MRI WCC Halls A-C · Board W15 Poster Mon Nov 16 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR131: Brain Injury: Animal Models: Biomarkers and Histology Therapeutic Effects of Arachidonoyl Methionine on Brain Connnectivity and Myelination After Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury WCC Halls A-C · Board W16 Poster Mon Nov 16 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR185: Visual Learning, Memory, Categorization, and Processing BOLD response in early visual cortex following self-initiated vs. uncontrolled visual change WCC Halls A-C · Board AA25 Poster Tue Nov 17 8am–noon Part of Session LBP043: B.02. Transmitter Receptors and Ligand-Gated Ion Channels Effects of NACHO and C-terminal M4 regions across species and subunits on chimeric α7 nicotinic receptor expression WCC Halls A-C · Board B24 Poster Tue Nov 17 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR234: Motor Planning and Execution in Humans: Behavior, Neurophysiology, and Imaging Yank modulates corticospinal output during voluntary submaximal contractions WCC Halls A-C · Board EE16 Poster Tue Nov 17 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR244: Cocaine: Reinforcement, Seeking, Reinstatement, and Memory A replication study of cocaine reinforcement in spontaneously hypertensive rat substrains: Expansion to ultrasonic vocalizations, transcriptomics, parental origin effects in reciprocal F1 crosses, and fentanyl locomotion WCC Halls A-C Poster Tue Nov 17 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR256: G-Protein Coupled and Other Receptors Synthetic cannabinoid-elicited high efficacy in canonical and non-canonical signaling: Potential mechanisms for toxicity WCC Halls A-C · Board N6 Poster Tue Nov 17 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR279: Plasticity and Regulation of Sleep and Sleep Deprivation Chronic, partial sleep deprivation suppresses neuronal activity and increases partial pressure of tissue oxygen in the living mouse hippocampus WCC Halls A-C · Board GG13 Talk Tue Nov 17 2:40–3:15pm Part of Session SYM13: Hormonal Effects During the Reproductive Years on Brain and Behavior: From Molecular Discovery to Promising Therapeutics for Women's Mental Health The Long-Term Impact of Pregnancy on Prefrontal Cortex Function: A Role for Late Gestation Allopregnanolone WCC Rm 146AB Poster Wed Nov 18 8am–noon Part of Session LBP076: J.06. Computation, Modeling, and Simulation Viewing distance statistics during training shape depth representations in deep stereo networks WCC Halls A-C · Board C12 Poster Wed Nov 18 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR326: Circuits, Systems, and Neuroimaging of Alcohol Use The ethanol paradox: dose-dependent, non-linear changes in global brain activity and functional connectivity: A BOLD fMRI study in awake rats WCC Halls A-C · Board II25 Poster Wed Nov 18 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR326: Circuits, Systems, and Neuroimaging of Alcohol Use Lasting Neurobiological Impacts of Alcohol and THC Combined Use During Adolescence WCC Halls A-C · Board JJ2 Poster Wed Nov 18 1–5pm Part of Session LBP083: I.05. Working Memory Prefrontal cortical activation during the N-back task measured using functional near-Infrared spectroscopy WCC Halls A-C · Board B49 Poster Wed Nov 18 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR379: Developmental and Sleep-Dependent Reconfiguration of Learning Circuits Sleep-Inspired Replay Enables Continual Learning via Representation Sparsification WCC Halls A-C · Board LL5 Talk Wed Nov 18 2:30–2:45pm Part of Session NANO46: Molecular Physiology of Ligand-Gated Receptors and Ion Channels Conservation of the humana7 SAP motif across species and nicotinic receptor sub-units WCC Rm 140

Organization

SfN 2026 Attendance

Northeastern University

Boston, MA

northeastern.edu

Universities and research institutes

Private research university based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Poster

Sat Nov 14
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR022: Stress: Neuroimmunology

Stress hormones trigger neutrophil extracellular trap release that contributes to behavioral changes

WCC Halls A-C · Board CC7

Poster

Sun Nov 15
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR062: Motor Learning: Human (Behavior/Physiology/Imaging) I

Left posterior parietal cortex involvement in left-arm adaptation and interlimb transfer

WCC Halls A-C · Board DD12

Poster

Sun Nov 15
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR067: Functional Imaging and Brain Connectivity

Awake Animal MRI: The Drug-Naïve Brain on Psychedelics

WCC Halls A-C · Board FF24

Poster

Sun Nov 15
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR067: Functional Imaging and Brain Connectivity

Ibogaine Induced Dose-Dependent Changes in Global Brain Activity and Connectivity Using fMRI

WCC Halls A-C · Board FF25

Poster

Sun Nov 15
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR067: Functional Imaging and Brain Connectivity

Dose-dependent changes in global brain activity and functional connectivity following exposure to DMT: a BOLD MRI study in awake rats

WCC Halls A-C · Board FF26

Poster

Sun Nov 15
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR071: Feeding, Metabolism, and Natural Reward

Semaglutide Alters Reward Circuit Activation and Connectivity with Partial but Incomplete Normalization After Washout

WCC Halls A-C · Board HH30

Poster

Sun Nov 15
1–5pm

Part of Session LBP007: H.01. Fear and Aversive Learning and Memory

Activation of vlPAG MOR+ neurons differentially alter male and female behavior during conditioned fear

WCC Halls A-C · Board B4

Poster

Mon Nov 16
8am–noon

Part of Session LBP019: D.01. Neurotoxicity, Inflammation, and Neuroprotection

How have research trends and therapeutic strategies for BBB-penetrant microglial Aβ clearance evolved from 2010 to 2025, and what role does neuroinflammation play in the shifting focus of drug discovery?

WCC Halls A-C · Board A24

Poster

Mon Nov 16
8am–noon

Part of Session LBP026: G.02. Neuroendrocrine Processes and Behavior

CRISPR-mediated knockdown of GABA-AR δ-subunits reveals a role for allopregnanolone in altering the parous brain

WCC Halls A-C · Board C3

Poster

Mon Nov 16
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR131: Brain Injury: Animal Models: Biomarkers and Histology

Sensitive period of plasticity emerges after delayed psilocybin treatment for repetitive mild head injury: A preclinical MRI study

WCC Halls A-C · Board W14

Poster

Mon Nov 16
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR131: Brain Injury: Animal Models: Biomarkers and Histology

Investigating the combined effects of chronic herbicide exposure and repetitive mild traumatic brain injury using multimodal MRI

WCC Halls A-C · Board W15

Poster

Mon Nov 16
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR131: Brain Injury: Animal Models: Biomarkers and Histology

Therapeutic Effects of Arachidonoyl Methionine on Brain Connnectivity and Myelination After Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

WCC Halls A-C · Board W16

Poster

Mon Nov 16
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR185: Visual Learning, Memory, Categorization, and Processing

BOLD response in early visual cortex following self-initiated vs. uncontrolled visual change

WCC Halls A-C · Board AA25

Poster

Tue Nov 17
8am–noon

Part of Session LBP043: B.02. Transmitter Receptors and Ligand-Gated Ion Channels

Effects of NACHO and C-terminal M4 regions across species and subunits on chimeric α7 nicotinic receptor expression

WCC Halls A-C · Board B24

Poster

Tue Nov 17
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR234: Motor Planning and Execution in Humans: Behavior, Neurophysiology, and Imaging

Yank modulates corticospinal output during voluntary submaximal contractions

WCC Halls A-C · Board EE16

Poster

Tue Nov 17
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR244: Cocaine: Reinforcement, Seeking, Reinstatement, and Memory

A replication study of cocaine reinforcement in spontaneously hypertensive rat substrains: Expansion to ultrasonic vocalizations, transcriptomics, parental origin effects in reciprocal F1 crosses, and fentanyl locomotion

WCC Halls A-C

Poster

Tue Nov 17
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR256: G-Protein Coupled and Other Receptors

Synthetic cannabinoid-elicited high efficacy in canonical and non-canonical signaling: Potential mechanisms for toxicity

WCC Halls A-C · Board N6

Poster

Tue Nov 17
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR279: Plasticity and Regulation of Sleep and Sleep Deprivation

Chronic, partial sleep deprivation suppresses neuronal activity and increases partial pressure of tissue oxygen in the living mouse hippocampus

WCC Halls A-C · Board GG13

Talk

Tue Nov 17
2:40–3:15pm

Part of Session SYM13: Hormonal Effects During the Reproductive Years on Brain and Behavior: From Molecular Discovery to Promising Therapeutics for Women's Mental Health

The Long-Term Impact of Pregnancy on Prefrontal Cortex Function: A Role for Late Gestation Allopregnanolone

WCC Rm 146AB

Poster

Wed Nov 18
8am–noon

Part of Session LBP076: J.06. Computation, Modeling, and Simulation

Viewing distance statistics during training shape depth representations in deep stereo networks

WCC Halls A-C · Board C12

Poster

Wed Nov 18
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR326: Circuits, Systems, and Neuroimaging of Alcohol Use

The ethanol paradox: dose-dependent, non-linear changes in global brain activity and functional connectivity: A BOLD fMRI study in awake rats

WCC Halls A-C · Board II25

Poster

Wed Nov 18
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR326: Circuits, Systems, and Neuroimaging of Alcohol Use

Lasting Neurobiological Impacts of Alcohol and THC Combined Use During Adolescence

WCC Halls A-C · Board JJ2

Poster

Wed Nov 18
1–5pm

Part of Session LBP083: I.05. Working Memory

Prefrontal cortical activation during the N-back task measured using functional near-Infrared spectroscopy

WCC Halls A-C · Board B49

Poster

Wed Nov 18
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR379: Developmental and Sleep-Dependent Reconfiguration of Learning Circuits

Sleep-Inspired Replay Enables Continual Learning via Representation Sparsification

WCC Halls A-C · Board LL5

Talk

Wed Nov 18
2:30–2:45pm

Part of Session NANO46: Molecular Physiology of Ligand-Gated Receptors and Ion Channels

Conservation of the humana7 SAP motif across species and nicotinic receptor sub-units

WCC Rm 140

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