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30 Mar 2022
🚨GIF THREAD ALERT🚨presenting our latest exploration on how “Distinct Medial Orbitofrontal–Striatal Circuits Support Dissociable Component Processes of Risk/Reward Decision-Making” by superstar student @_NicoleJenni in @SfNJournals #JNeurosci jneurosci.org/content/42/13/…
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May 29
Why do so few mental health drugs actually work? 🧐 🧠
In a special new opinion piece, @profdavidnutt presents a radical take on what the pharma industry gets wrong in its search for new treatments.
Check it out now 👇
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May 22
Excellent Post Doc opportunity from an excellent scientist (and even cooler guy!)
The top 10 reasons to do a postdoc in our lab: Number 10 . . .
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May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center.
Opening June 19. @BarackObama @MarkHamill
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Officially out today! Long-running project, many thanks to give - in particular to my mentors & collaborators, the postbacs who worked so hard on each experiment, and the reviewers. If you love the amygdala, give it a read.
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9 Oct 2025
for anyone interested in the amygdala and risky decision-making, check out our new preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
amygdala neurons track reward-seeking actions, and punishment risk dramatically alters this function. lots of other (BLA-accumbens!) data included.
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✨🧠Postdoc position open!🧠✨
If you’re excited about neural circuits, stress, and behavior (and want to do some really cool experiments), I’d love to hear from you.
Please share!
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Apr 8
I grew up with phasic dopamine = reward prediction errors, phasic dips- negative prediction errors etc.
Looks like that's not always the case- PFC DA signals seem to be doing something way different than in the striatum. So proud to be associated with this work.
Mar 19
#JNeurosci: Gallello et al tested if DA conveying RPEs in the service of Reinforcement Learning are directly applied to regions, like MFC. Results suggest DA signals don't serve a universal function, but conform to support functions of each local region
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Mar 9
Remembering Reverend Jesse Jackson ❤️
Season 17, Episode 1
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Feb 25
Addiction to short-form videos reduces brain activity in the frontal lobe weakening the ability to focus.
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Proud to serve as Guest Editor (with @ConnorHaggarty , @MayoOnTheBrain & Christelle Baunez) for the @PsychopharmEBPS Special Issue: Stress, Trauma & Cannabinoids.
14 papers bridging preclinical & human research on the ECS, PTSD & stress responsivity.
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New paper from lab on VTA dopamine GABA inputs in punishment learning
nature.com/articles/s41386-0…
TL;DR here:
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CIHR funding rate: 13.6%.
Early 2000s: 30% .
Canada’s new $1.7B Impact program recruits talent — but without increased Tri-Council base funding, we risk further strain on an already stretched system.
We’re calling for $1B over 5 years.
Support here: tinyurl.com/33c5av46
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Exciting opportunity for graduate students & early postdocs!
The Rutgers Brain Health Institute invites you to Postdoc Peek, a two-day, 👉all-expenses-paid👈, on-campus visit on May 19–20, 2026!
Apply by February 23, 2026 🔗 Learn more at: bit.ly/4bRDC7u
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NEW Psychopharmacology Special Issue derived from the #EBPS2023 biennial in Mannheim. Focused on Stress, Trauma and Cannabinoids!
What an undertaking this was. So proud of the collection @MayoOnTheBrain, @BrainsBeesBikes, @CBaunez and I collected for the “Stress, Trauma and Cannabinoids” special issue in @PsychopharmEBPS. You can read the editorial here for more on the issue link.springer.com/article/10…
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UBC has just been ranked 2nd in Canada and 33rd globally in the inaugural TIME World's Top Universities of 2026.
Learn more: bit.ly/4rlYAzZ
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Jan 21
Hey ventral pallidum fans, our new paper shows #VP GABA neurons, known for reward, also regulate aversive motivation! Inhibiting them w/#DREADDs 🔼 active or passive defenses to threats, likely via LHb.
Congrats to @ramirezneurosci & Marty Martinez!
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Jan 13
Dopamine responses in medial frontal cortex are more consistent with a generalized arousal signal than signed reward prediction errors. | Journal of Neuroscience
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1 Dec 2025
🚨🚨GIF THREAD ALERT – With pleasure, we present our @SfNJournals #JNeurosci article jneurosci.org/content/45/48/… by @catecholameme & @miekevholstein
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Collectively, these results bolster a growing literature that mOFC and lOFC play distinct yet complimentary roles in the evaluation of outcomes and cues that inform the costs and benefits associated with future action. As is typical of studies of OFC function…
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Thanks as always for your attention {cross posted at ..the good blue place}
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