University of Texas at El Paso at SfN 2026

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

University of Texas at El Paso brings 24 presentations to SfN 2026 in Washington. Its posters and talks centre on substance use and motivated behavior, ghrelin-related decision-making circuits, and atlas-based brain mapping. One thread traces how ghrelin signaling recruits striosomal circuits to shape conflict-based choices.

Organization	SfN 2026 Attendance
University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX
utep.edu Universities and research institutes Public research university in El Paso, Texas.	Poster Sat Nov 14 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR028: Cognitive and Behavioral Consequences of Alcohol Exposure Alcohol Exposure Duration and Drinking Continuity Shape Conflict Behavior in Mice WCC Halls A-C · Board FF7 Poster Sat Nov 14 1–5pm Part of Session TKP02: Graduate and Professional Teaching of Neuroscience The Ship of Theseus: Continued software development, across semesters and students, of Community Brain Maps, an open-access rat brain atlas based on the Brain Maps 4.0 reference space WCC Halls A-C · Board LL43 Poster Sat Nov 14 1–5pm Part of Session TKP04: College Teaching of Neuroscience A new curriculum for a decade-old Brain Mapping & Connectomics course-based undergraduate research experience: Integration of 3-D imaging, software engineering, and digital humanities into the existing pedagogical framework WCC Halls A-C · Board LL89 Poster Sat Nov 14 1–5pm Part of Session TKP04: College Teaching of Neuroscience A newly formulated CURE for AI erasure: Adding a Digital Humanities component to the curriculum of a brain mapping course to preserve the craft and community of brain mapping WCC Halls A-C · Board LL90 Poster Sun Nov 15 1–5pm Part of Session LBP014: H.08. Drugs of Abuse and Addiction Examination of dose and sex dependent effects of ghrelin on cocaine self-administration and motivation WCC Halls A-C · Board C40 Poster Sun Nov 15 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR102: Neuroendocrine Anatomy and Physiology Context and state-dependent human decision-making: validatory computational analyses across individuals, cohorts, and potential neuroeconomic translation with rodent models WCC Halls A-C · Board CC3 Poster Sun Nov 15 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior Three-Dimensional Light Sheet Microscopy Analysis of GLP-1 Neuronal Populations in the Rat Hindbrain and Comparison with Atlas-Registered Two-Dimensional Sections and NeuN staining WCC Halls A-C · Board CC4 Poster Sun Nov 15 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior The Good, The Bad, and the Slice: An open-access pipeline for extracting and segmenting 2-D images from 3-D Imaris light sheet microscopic image data WCC Halls A-C · Board CC5 Poster Sun Nov 15 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior Hypocretin/orexin and catecholaminergic systems in the adult male rat midbrain and hindbrain: a standardized atlas-based mapping of reciprocal circuitry WCC Halls A-C · Board CC6 Poster Sun Nov 15 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior Atlas-based neurochemical investigation of opioid and catecholaminergic circuit elements in rat ventral tegmental area and surrounding regions WCC Halls A-C · Board CC7 Poster Sun Nov 15 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior Spatial organization and atlas-based mapping of parvalbumin-immunoreactive neurons in the rat olfactory bulb and prefrontal cortex WCC Halls A-C · Board CC8 Poster Sun Nov 15 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior Growth hormone secretagogue receptor activation modulates cost-benefit decision-making via the dorsomedial striatal circuit WCC Halls A-C · Board CC28 Poster Sun Nov 15 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior Dose-dependent recruitment of the striosome-LHb-dopamine circuit by GHSR activation WCC Halls A-C · Board CC29 Poster Sun Nov 15 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior Putative Human Striosomes Underlie Decision-making Strategies WCC Halls A-C · Board CC30 Poster Sun Nov 15 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior Ghrelin signaling recruits striosomal circuit to influence conflict-based decision-making WCC Halls A-C · Board DD1 Poster Sun Nov 15 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR117: Decoding Large-Scale Neural Dynamics: Models, States, and Whole-Brain Population Computation Designing a high-throughput, customizable, and extensible neuroeconomic framework for the study of context-driven decision-making WCC Halls A-C · Board KK62 Poster Mon Nov 16 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR146: Substance Exposure, Withdrawal, and Motivated Behavior Effects of adolescent ketamine on AKT-mTOR protein expression in the adult hippocampus WCC Halls A-C · Board EE27 Poster Mon Nov 16 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR148: Positive and Negative Affective States: Circuits and Correlates Cholinergic Modulation of Approach-Avoidance Conflict Resolution in Mice WCC Halls A-C · Board FF31 Poster Mon Nov 16 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR160: From In Vitro Cellular Imaging and Simulations to Neural Activity Mapping Informational Dimension Selection Based Spike Sorting Using Feature Core Clustering, and Neural-Network Quality Estimation WCC Halls A-C · Board LL73 Poster Tue Nov 17 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR213: Voltage-Gated Potassium Channels Expression pattern of Kv3 potassium channel subunits in dopaminergic neurons of the ventral tegmental area WCC Halls A-C · Board I2 Poster Tue Nov 17 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR244: Cocaine: Reinforcement, Seeking, Reinstatement, and Memory Encoding of Cocaine Seeking and Demand in the Prelimbic Cortex to Dorsomedial Striatum (PL-DMS) Circuit WCC Halls A-C · Board KK23 Poster Tue Nov 17 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR244: Cocaine: Reinforcement, Seeking, Reinstatement, and Memory Encoding of Effortful and Punished Costs in the Prelimbic-Accumbens Pathway During Cocaine Self-Administration and Response to 4-ACO-DMT WCC Halls A-C · Board KK24 Poster Tue Nov 17 1–5pm Part of Session LBP064: F.03. Basal Ganglia Title: Striosome-centered circuit in the basal ganglia controls commitment to actions WCC Halls A-C · Board B52 Poster Wed Nov 18 1–5pm Part of Session LBP081: I.03. Decision Making Effects of High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity and Semaglutide on Orbitofrontal Cortex Activity and Behaviors Associated With Substance Use Disorder Vulnerability WCC Halls A-C · Board B15

Organization

SfN 2026 Attendance

University of Texas at El Paso

El Paso, TX

utep.edu

Universities and research institutes

Public research university in El Paso, Texas.

Poster

Sat Nov 14
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR028: Cognitive and Behavioral Consequences of Alcohol Exposure

Alcohol Exposure Duration and Drinking Continuity Shape Conflict Behavior in Mice

WCC Halls A-C · Board FF7

Poster

Sat Nov 14
1–5pm

Part of Session TKP02: Graduate and Professional Teaching of Neuroscience

The Ship of Theseus: Continued software development, across semesters and students, of Community Brain Maps, an open-access rat brain atlas based on the Brain Maps 4.0 reference space

WCC Halls A-C · Board LL43

Poster

Sat Nov 14
1–5pm

Part of Session TKP04: College Teaching of Neuroscience

A new curriculum for a decade-old Brain Mapping & Connectomics course-based undergraduate research experience: Integration of 3-D imaging, software engineering, and digital humanities into the existing pedagogical framework

WCC Halls A-C · Board LL89

Poster

Sat Nov 14
1–5pm

Part of Session TKP04: College Teaching of Neuroscience

A newly formulated CURE for AI erasure: Adding a Digital Humanities component to the curriculum of a brain mapping course to preserve the craft and community of brain mapping

WCC Halls A-C · Board LL90

Poster

Sun Nov 15
1–5pm

Part of Session LBP014: H.08. Drugs of Abuse and Addiction

Examination of dose and sex dependent effects of ghrelin on cocaine self-administration and motivation

WCC Halls A-C · Board C40

Poster

Sun Nov 15
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR102: Neuroendocrine Anatomy and Physiology

Context and state-dependent human decision-making: validatory computational analyses across individuals, cohorts, and potential neuroeconomic translation with rodent models

WCC Halls A-C · Board CC3

Poster

Sun Nov 15
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior

Three-Dimensional Light Sheet Microscopy Analysis of GLP-1 Neuronal Populations in the Rat Hindbrain and Comparison with Atlas-Registered Two-Dimensional Sections and NeuN staining

WCC Halls A-C · Board CC4

Poster

Sun Nov 15
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior

The Good, The Bad, and the Slice: An open-access pipeline for extracting and segmenting 2-D images from 3-D Imaris light sheet microscopic image data

WCC Halls A-C · Board CC5

Poster

Sun Nov 15
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior

Hypocretin/orexin and catecholaminergic systems in the adult male rat midbrain and hindbrain: a standardized atlas-based mapping of reciprocal circuitry

WCC Halls A-C · Board CC6

Poster

Sun Nov 15
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior

Atlas-based neurochemical investigation of opioid and catecholaminergic circuit elements in rat ventral tegmental area and surrounding regions

WCC Halls A-C · Board CC7

Poster

Sun Nov 15
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior

Spatial organization and atlas-based mapping of parvalbumin-immunoreactive neurons in the rat olfactory bulb and prefrontal cortex

WCC Halls A-C · Board CC8

Poster

Sun Nov 15
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior

Growth hormone secretagogue receptor activation modulates cost-benefit decision-making via the dorsomedial striatal circuit

WCC Halls A-C · Board CC28

Poster

Sun Nov 15
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior

Dose-dependent recruitment of the striosome-LHb-dopamine circuit by GHSR activation

WCC Halls A-C · Board CC29

Poster

Sun Nov 15
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior

Putative Human Striosomes Underlie Decision-making Strategies

WCC Halls A-C · Board CC30

Poster

Sun Nov 15
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR103: Energy Balance: Anatomy, Systems, Behavior

Ghrelin signaling recruits striosomal circuit to influence conflict-based decision-making

WCC Halls A-C · Board DD1

Poster

Sun Nov 15
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR117: Decoding Large-Scale Neural Dynamics: Models, States, and Whole-Brain Population Computation

Designing a high-throughput, customizable, and extensible neuroeconomic framework for the study of context-driven decision-making

WCC Halls A-C · Board KK62

Poster

Mon Nov 16
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR146: Substance Exposure, Withdrawal, and Motivated Behavior

Effects of adolescent ketamine on AKT-mTOR protein expression in the adult hippocampus

WCC Halls A-C · Board EE27

Poster

Mon Nov 16
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR148: Positive and Negative Affective States: Circuits and Correlates

Cholinergic Modulation of Approach-Avoidance Conflict Resolution in Mice

WCC Halls A-C · Board FF31

Poster

Mon Nov 16
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR160: From In Vitro Cellular Imaging and Simulations to Neural Activity Mapping

Informational Dimension Selection Based Spike Sorting Using Feature Core Clustering, and Neural-Network Quality Estimation

WCC Halls A-C · Board LL73

Poster

Tue Nov 17
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR213: Voltage-Gated Potassium Channels

Expression pattern of Kv3 potassium channel subunits in dopaminergic neurons of the ventral tegmental area

WCC Halls A-C · Board I2

Poster

Tue Nov 17
8am–noon

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

Encoding of Cocaine Seeking and Demand in the Prelimbic Cortex to Dorsomedial Striatum (PL-DMS) Circuit

WCC Halls A-C · Board KK23

Poster

Tue Nov 17
8am–noon

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

Encoding of Effortful and Punished Costs in the Prelimbic-Accumbens Pathway During Cocaine Self-Administration and Response to 4-ACO-DMT

WCC Halls A-C · Board KK24

Poster

Tue Nov 17
1–5pm

Part of Session LBP064: F.03. Basal Ganglia

Title: Striosome-centered circuit in the basal ganglia controls commitment to actions

WCC Halls A-C · Board B52

Poster

Wed Nov 18
1–5pm

Part of Session LBP081: I.03. Decision Making

Effects of High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity and Semaglutide on Orbitofrontal Cortex Activity and Behaviors Associated With Substance Use Disorder Vulnerability

WCC Halls A-C · Board B15

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