A fear conditioned cue orchestrates a suite of behaviors in rats
elifesciences.org/articles/82497

Root lab is recruiting four research assistants to aid in stress-related research (jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…) and ongoing projects (jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…). Boulder is a great place to be, reach out if have questions!

So excited to have our most recent #dopamine paper led by @_sjmillard and Ivy Hoang out in Nature Neuroscience today!

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From someone who has studied this field for over 2 decades, I can comfortably say that virtually everything said here is inaccurate. It is incredibly disturbing to me that someone claiming to be a scientist can talk with such authority on something they clearly know nothing about

Something very very bad is happening to me or I am tired

Check out recent work of Calu Lab’s David Martin et al examining Psychedelic effects on NAc dopamine signaling of Pavlovian reward associations!

A few days ago, the journal eLife published a self-study on the first year of its new publishing model, and it is well worth a look. Here are some notes based on my own experience with the journal as author and reviewing editor: markusmeister.com/2024/03/17/a-y….

New to the neuroscience toolbox: a marker of decreased neural activity, offering scientists a tool to study inhibition for the first time. Read my story for The Transmitter here thetransmitter.org/methods/what-g…

🚨🚨 New Wassum Lab Paper Alert 🚨🚨

How does the brain enable the learning we need to make adaptive decisions?
Is dopamine involved?

Dr. Ana Sias & team discovered answers. Read on to find out. 🧵👇🏻

Published today in Nature Neuroscience
nature.com/articles/s4159…

Wholeheartedly agree. Not only as a sanity check, but also because you often discover unanticipated findings

Why do we love cake and ice cream? My lab's latest paper in Cell Metabolism led by Molly McDougle, PhD identifies separate gut-reward circuits for fat and sugar. Foods combining fat and sugar recruit both reward circuits to increase motivation to overeating. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S15…

New! Online now: Separate gut-brain circuits for fat and sugar reinforcement combine to promote overeating dlvr.it/T1YgsV

Excited to share this long-brewing project led by Han de Jong in the Lammel lab where reconcile some disagreements in the field as to what dopamine encodes (RPE? Value?), and whether DA release in the accumbens can arise independently from cell spiking. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Mechanisms for survival: vagal control of goal-directed behavior

Review by Vanessa Teckentrup (Vanessa Teckentrup | @glassybrain.bsky.social) & Nils B. Kroemer (@cornu_copiae)

cell.com/trends/cogniti…

I'm a bit ahead of the postings, but -

We will be recruiting for 2 roles - a lab asst (can be entry level; BS required) and a lab manager (experience needed).

Reach out if interested! We have a track record of folks transitioning to PhDs, earning authorship, awards, etc

A new preprint from our lab. Read this if you are interested in:
- Models of basal ganglia/dopamine
- D1/D2 dopamine receptor
- Bias in value prediction
- Tonic vs phasic dopamine
- Psychiatric disorders such as depression
- Distributional reinforcement learning
with Sandra Romero Pinto

The time of day that we eat has significant impact on body weight and metabolic health but what determines those mealtimes? In a new study Nature Neuroscience, we monitored daily oscillations in the activity of key hypothalamic hunger neurons expressing AgRP. ++ nature.com/articles/s4159…

Advice for a young investigator Matt Hill style. The culmination of a fantastic journey through Matt’s career from wannabe novelist to translational neuroscientist.

Happy to contribute to this special issue on the Hypothalamus and share my thoughts on neurocircuits for motivation. Lots of great reviews in this issue on the diversity of physiological and behavioral functions orchestrated by these critical brain structures!

It took us 11 years but: Dopaminergic systems create reward seeking despite adverse consequences
nature.com/articles/s4158…