Juan Song

@Songlaboratory

Interested in adult hippocampal neurogenesis, learning & memory, affect, in health and disease. Professor@University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill songlab.web.unc.edu Joined February 2018

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Juan Song @Songlaboratory Nov 22, 2025

Happy to share our study published online today! We reveal how a small population of aberrantly integrated adult-born new neurons can disrupt brain-wide network dynamics and ultimately impair spatial memory processing.
nature.com/articles/s4138…

www.nature.com Aberrantly integrated adult-born immature neurons disrupt brain-wide networks during spatial memory... Molecular Psychiatry - Aberrantly integrated adult-born immature neurons disrupt brain-wide networks during spatial memory processing

Juan Song @Songlaboratory Oct 3, 2025

Happy to share our new work online today in Neuron “Segregated supramammillary-dentate gyrus circuits modulate cognitive and affective function in healthy and Alzheimer’s disease model mice”
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Juan Song @Songlaboratory Sep 11, 2025

Excited to share our new paper, ‘Targeting glucose-inhibited hippocampal CCK interneurons prevents cognitive impairment in diet-induced obesity,’ published online in Neuron today! Congrats to all the co-authors!
cell.com/neuron/abstrac…

Juan Song @Songlaboratory Sep 24, 2024

Excited to share our work on cholinergic circuit regulation of adult neural stem cells through dentate granule cell intermediaries, a new mode of circuit-based regulation of adult neural stem cells in the hippocampus.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

www.pnas.org Septo-dentate gyrus cholinergic circuits modulate function and morphogenesis of adult neural stem... Cholinergic neurons in the basal forebrain play a crucial role in regulating adult hippocampal neurogenesis (AHN). However, the circuit and molecul...

Juan Song @Songlaboratory Apr 26, 2024

Happy to share our recent story on “Sex-specific expression of distinct serotonin receptors mediates stress vulnerability of adult hippocampal neural stem cells”.
cell.com/cell-reports/f…

www.cell.com Sex-specific expression of distinct serotonin receptors mediates stress vulnerability of adult... Luo et al. report sex-specific expression of distinct 5HTRs in adult mouse neural stem cells (NSCs) and their differential interaction with stress in regulating NSCs. Specifically, stress upregulates...