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Proud to have co-led this important study w/ @LauraKMilton and to finally bring to fruition the pioneering vision of @ClaireFoldi in @molpsychiatry . It has been an honour to work with #psilocybin 🍄 in Australia @MonashBDI
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Kyna Conn retweeted
May 25
2) Preprint from the final project led by @KynaConn during her postdoc on how dopamine drives improved reversal learning after psilocybin 🍄🟫
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Kyna Conn retweeted
28 Oct 2025
The amazing science continues with our second session for the day at #BPA2025! Congratulations to @KynaConn, @hkatemacpherson and Xavier Maddern on being awarded the highest ranked abstracts for this years meeting.
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In our exciting new study led by @SezSaysScience and @ClaireFoldi, cachexia in a pancreatic cancer mouse model impaired reversal learning without elevating anxiety, suggesting sickness-induced reward devaluation can uniquely disrupt cognitive flexibility
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Awesome to see Shedia present her exciting work on PSI effects on social behaviour at this year's @IBNSconnect!! Come check it out 🍄🍄
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21 Jun 2025
Writing this was like any other act of love - awkward at the start, frustrating at times, but something to be proud of. Very grateful to @DrK_Griffiths for agreeing to take on this challenge with me @NatRevNeurosci
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Kyna Conn retweeted
16 Jun 2025
We created a python package for photometry post-hoc analysis using bootstrapping confidence Intervals
No more AUC or time bins analysis! Ever
Follow our simple step by step instructions.
Thanks....
@DrReal82 @ClaireFoldi @philURDB @Stark_BrainSci
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Kyna Conn retweeted
12 Mar 2025
are my behav neuro peeps still here? I posted the fabulous new work from the lab, led by PhD student @KaixinCHuang over on the other place last night and got crickets... check it out!!
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My brilliant friend @Joeybenetatos from post-grad is joining the @MonashBDI seminar series today to present the cutting-edge techniques he uses to better understand psychedelic mechanisms of action. Please come along and support this very talented ECR!
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Kyna Conn retweeted
26 Sep 2024
Forgot to post in real time but THE @KynaConn crushed her poster presentation @ecnptweets in Milan this week. Figured out how to include a QR code and everything #genius #ECNP2024
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Kyna Conn retweeted
24 Jul 2024
I’m so excited to share my first paper on “Potential Differences in Psychedelic Actions Based on Biological Sex” 🍄🟫✨
I am deeply grateful to my incredible supervisor @ClaireFoldi for her support and guidance throughout this process 💙
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Proud to have co-led this important study w/ @LauraKMilton and to finally bring to fruition the pioneering vision of @ClaireFoldi in @molpsychiatry . It has been an honour to work with #psilocybin 🍄 in Australia @MonashBDI
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None of this would have been possible without the indispensable contributions from members of the #FoldiLab and co-authors: @KaixinCHuang @hermanymv @janikaruuska @BrianOldfield_1 as well as non-X users Moyra, Erika & Jih ♥️
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Kyna Conn retweeted
3 Mar 2024
Join us in Lorne in November 🌞🏖️ and give our X account a follow @BDI_MDOP - we had a technical issue last year and lost all our lovely followers 😥
3 Mar 2024
We are delighted to announce that Metabolic Diseases Breakthrough Discoveries in Diabetes and Obesity Meeting 2024 is now open for registrations!
Where & when: Lorne, Australia, 17 - 20 November.
For early-bird registrations at #MDO24 see: bdi-mdo.org/
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Kyna Conn retweeted
11 Jan 2024
They say to “write what you know” but @feliciamreed1 & I broke with convention to write about what we don’t know @TrendsinPharma. We want to understand whether potential #psychedelic actions in the gut may be relevant for therapeutic outcomes 🤨🍄👇🏼 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Kyna Conn retweeted
4 Jan 2024
Was a pleasure working with @KynaConn on this proposal in @IntJEatDisord to better understand and treat #compulsive exercise in #anorexia nervosa. Thanks to @KaixinCHuang & @sashadmo for their valuable input👇🏼 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Kyna Conn retweeted
14 Dec 2023
Boom💥new preprint just dropped! #psychedelics activity-based #anorexia, reinforcement learning, behavioural pharmacology cortical 5-HT1A & 5-HT2A transcription. Led by the inimitable @KynaConn & @LauraKMilton 💪🏼 @MonashBDI👇🏼 Check it out! 🍄🐁
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Psilocybin prevents activity-based anorexia in female rats by enhancing cognitive flexibility: contributions from 5-HT1A and 5-HT2A ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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Delighted to see this study published with the old PhD supervisory team @JKesby and @BurneTom indicating that altering D1:D2 receptor signalling ratios improves amphetamine-induced learning impairments in mice, with implications for schizophrenia
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Kyna Conn retweeted
29 Aug 2023
Great overview by @feliciamreed1 of some of our recent progress uncovering novel therapeutic mechanisms of psilocybin 🍄@QTResearchWeek @aedrtc
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