News

2024

September

Announcement!

Registration for the upcoming Gordon Research Conference on Consciousness, Anesthesia and Evolutionary Biology is open!

July

New Publication: Learn how dopaminergic agents affect arousal and memory under low-dose sevoflurane in this article to be published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia.

June

Welcome to the Solt Lab, Eric Smith! And congratulations on receiving the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) Medical Student Anesthesia Research Fellowship (MSARF)!

Welcome to the Solt Lab, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Jinyoung Choi!

New Publication: Research from the Solt Lab published in the journal Brain Stimulation reveals that deep brain stimulation of the ventral tegmental area rapidly restores consciousness from mechanistically diverse anesthetic and sedative agents. Congrats to co-first authors, Edlyn Zhang and Kathleen Vincent and the whole team!

January

The Solt Lab is currently searching for postdoctoral fellows to join the team!

2023

October

New Publication: Need a primer on how dopaminergic circuits modulate anesthetic emergence? Check out this latest review by Drs. Kathleen Vincent and Ken Solt published this month in Current Opinion in Anesthesiology titled “Modulating anesthetic emergence with pathway-selective dopamine signaling“.

September

Congratulations to Dr. David Obert for being this year’s William L. Young Neuroscience Research Award Winner for his proposal titled “Identification of drug specific arousal circuits in the midbrain for anesthetic reversal“!

July

New Publication: Does a rat’s estrous cycle impact how she will respond to general anesthesia? Read about it in our paper titled “Oestrous cycle affects emergence from anaesthesia with dexmedetomidine, but not propofol, isoflurane, or sevoflurane, in female rats“ published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia this month. Congrats to Dr. Kathleen Vincent and all contributing authors!

June

Great success at the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on "Consciousness, Anesthesia and Evolutionary Biology"! Congrats to both Drs. Max Kelz and Ken Solt for putting together a phenomenal program. We hope to see you all again in Tuscany, January 2025!

January

Welcome to research fellow, Dr. David Obert, MD, joining the Solt Lab from The Neuromonitoring Lab at the Technical University of Munich!

2022

December

Congratulations to Dr. Kathleen Vincent on receiving the K99 Pathway to Independence Award under the mentorship of Dr. Ken Solt for her proposal titled “Neural Circuits Underlying Postoperative Delirium in Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease”!

August

Welcome to the Solt Lab’s latest member and recent Amherst College graduate: Gwi Park!

2021

November

New Publication: Read about how rats perform on a touchscreen attention task following general anesthesia in the Solt lab’s recent Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience article, “Return of the Righting Reflex Does Not Portend Recovery of Cognitive Function in Anesthetized Rats“. Congrats to the whole Solt Lab team!

September

New Publication: Drs. Olivia Moody, Kathleen Vincent, and Ken Solt published an editorial “Sex, drugs, and anaesthesia research"“ in the British Journal of Anaesthesia! This editorial highlights the work of Joksimovic et al. which demonstrated sex differences in sensitivity to a novel neurosteroid anesthetic and emphasizes the importance of including sex as a biological variable in anesthesia research. Congratulations!

August

Farewell to our lovely undergraduate summer students Victoria Stewart and Emmaline Dillon! Thank you both for all your hard work, and best of luck with your studies!

May

New Publication: Dr. Risako Kato’s paper “D-Amphetamine Rapidly Reverses Dexmedetomidine-Induced Unconsciousness in Rats” published in Frontiers in Pharmacology! Congrats to Risako and all authors!

Welcome to the Solt lab’s undergraduate summer student interns Emmaline Dillon and Victoria Stewart!

April

Drs. Risako Kato and Ken Solt published an editorial “Prehabilitation With Brain Stimulation?” in Anesthesia & Analgesia! Congrats to both!

Our team’s narrative review article “The Neural Circuits Underlying General Anesthesia and Sleep” led by Dr. Olivia Moody published in Anesthesia & Analgesia! Congratulations to all authors!

March

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Fettiplace, who will be joining the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital as new faculty in July 2021!

February

Ksenia Vlasov’s paper “Activation of GABAergic Neurons in the Rostromedial Tegmental Nucleus and Other Brainstem Regions Promotes Sedation and Facilitates Sevoflurane Anesthesia in Mice” published in Anesthesia & Analgesia! Congratulations to all authors!

2020

December

Welcome to clinical fellow Dr. Michael Fettiplace, MD, PhD!

November

Dr. Olivia Moody’s paper “D-Amphetamine Accelerates Recovery of Consciousness and Respiratory Drive After High-Dose Fentanyl in Rats” published in Frontiers in Pharmacology! Congratulations to Olivia, Ken, Edlyn, Risako, and colleagues!

October

Welcome to visiting medical student Angel Cho (Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine)!

Dr. Ken Solt’s article “The brain rhythms that detach us from reality” published in Nature! Congratulations to Ken and Dr. Akeju!

September

Welcome to the new Solt Lab website—click around and explore!