Check out our new paper ⁦nature⁩. A collaborative effort from the Zipursky and Card labs uncovers a novel circuit wiring strategy underlying sensorimotor transformation in the fly brain nature.com/articles/s4158…

From the developmental perspective, we introduce a concept of within-cell-type synaptic specificity: individual neurons of the same cell type display unique connectivity profiles. How is this achieved? A follow up study is on the way!

🚨 - IN PRESS! Our paper on daily suicidal urges in attempted suicide is accepted at the Journal of Affective Disorders! with Aidan Wright Alex Dombrovski 🇺🇦 & Michael Hallquist! A v/ brief 🧵 1/4

Results suggest that far from being inert, antidepressant placebos set off positive feedback loops between expectancies and learning, resulting in mood improvement. ja.ma/3y3jHgS

50 days of free access to journal formatted pdf of our new paper, "Suicidal urges and attempted suicide at multiple time scales in borderline personality disorder" with Aleksa Kaurin (she/her) Alex Dombrovski 🇺🇦 and Michael Hallquist. Here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1gkrqbXYirB8Z

Excited to share this postdoc opportunity in collaboration with Karim Jerbi , PAUL CISEK and Michael Hallquist. Please feel free to contact any of us!

Briefly about the current state of affairs in Russia: Russian tank got stuck in the entrance to the circus.

Strange to think that I lived 2 blocks from the Rostov Circus/South Military District Command between the ages of 1-8. The official name is appropriately "The State Circus".

Excited to share our new paper with Michael Hallquist Kai Hwang and Dr. Bea Luna, bridging working memory and RL accounts of how rewards resolve option competition within parietal maps as one shifts from exploration to exploitation. science.org/doi/full/10.11…

About two weeks left to apply to our Summer School in Computational Social Cognition! Check out the website and please spread the word if you can.

Excited to share that our paper with Tim Allen and Michael Hallquist on antagonism and tracking of cooperation incentives in the default network is out in PNAS: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Social learning supports cooperation, but it can also serve the dark side of human nature.

Excited to share Andrew Papale's new preprint with Vanessa Brown, Angela Ianni, Dr. Bea Luna and Michael Hallquist biorxiv.org/content/10.110… While PFC default network and posterior hippocampus encode value-laden maps during exploitation, their connectivity reflects exploration.