Come work with us in sunny SoCal: We’re recruiting a postdoc!!! We’re an inclusive team of behavioral neuroscientists trying to discover the brain circuits that help us learn about rewarding events and use that info to make good decisions. More info👇 wassumlab.psych.ucla.edu/join-the-lab/

Pesquisadores descobrem neurônios que deflagram a busca frenética por alimentos www1.folha.uol.com.br/ciencia/2024/0…

Take a look at this work from my awesome colleague Peyman Golshani, where they report how to make an open source affordable two-photon miniscope for mice!! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Really glad to have this work identifying the key role of PV-neurons in the ventral hippocampus in gating the anxiolytic actions of the serotonergic psychedelic, DOI, out in Neuron Tata Institute of Fundamental Research sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thank you Brain and Behavior Research Foundation @bbrf for funding and highlighting our research on food-seeking circuits! bbrfoundation.org/content/food-s…

🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨 Jackie Gio discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s41... Free full text: rdcu.be/eaxEv

I’m excited to share a new paper from the lab. The study led by Xiaowei Gu reveals how the mPFC encodes complex emotional memories, using an internal model to infer emotional associations and memories via projections to the amygdala rdcu.be/el19t nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congratulations to the lab's newest PhD graduate Dr. Torossian Anita ! Anita won a F31 award, trained many younger researchers and showed how the hypothalamus controls learned escape in the Journal of Neuroscience! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40180574/