Happy to share our work SfN Journals, led by Shani Gendelis and Dorrit Inbar showing synaptic/physiological differences between ventral pallidum neurons of mice that gained the most and least weight under free access to highly palatable food. #JNeurosci jneurosci.org/content/early/…

Inferring spikes from calcium imaging in dopamine neurons biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

Paper out on striatal cholinergic neurons and behavioral flexibility from the immensely talented Kenny Amaya. Review process is open to read too - lovely example of how it makes papers better. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

In a new preprint, we report evidence of idiosyncratic state dynamics in vmPFC local field potentials consistent with generating affective meaning. With Tiankang Xie Jin Hyun Cheong Jeremy Manning & Kris Bujarski. bit.ly/3o7tP2m. See summary thread by Context Lab

Excited to share our newest paper describing a GPCR-based opsin for presynaptic inhibition! cell.com/neuron/fulltex… Congrats to Bryan Copits Rob Gereau Raaj Gowrishankar @_SpaceKase_ and team! Thanks to National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) #NIHBRAINInitiative for the support. (1/2)

I’m excited to share my final paper from my time at Dartmouth with the late David Bucci, the Twitterless Travis Todd and a host other fantastic researchers including Han! This piece was a cornerstone of my dissertation and a labor of love. So what did we find?

Our lab is looking for graduate students. Lots of exciting projects going on! Spread the word! pbs.dartmouth.edu/menufeature/gr…

Check out the latest from Dr. Maddie Ray and Mahsa Moaddab in #JNeurosci !! Threat and bidirectional valence signals in the nucleus accumbens core.

Lab is looking for a full time research assistant! These can be great bridges to grad school. Apply! searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/60595

Great to see this paper come out! Congrats to my grad student Heather and Daniela! Thanks to my awesome collaborator Anna Li AnnaLi.Lab and her lab!!! Thanks SfN Journals for making it the paper of the week!

New dopamine story from our lab! The Calipari Lab. We showed that accumbal dopamine's role in fear and safety learning cannot be explained by Reward Prediction Error (RPE) hypothesis and it is in line with a "Perceived Saliency" signal. 🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are hiring! Join us! Yay! apply.interfolio.com/111750

Thanks especially to @kenam15, Beth Smedley, kyle smith, and all of the Smith Lab for their wisdom and support throughout the last 2.5 years!

🥳 Our latest study online today. C Schreiweis and Hugues Lamothe carefully challenged the face/predictive validity of sapap3-KO mice. They revealed a more complex comorbid expression of symptoms, already observed in OCD/Tourette patients! nature.com/articles/s4139…

📢 We are looking for talented research technicians to join the Cai Lab. Come be part of a supportive & creative lab with opportunities for growth & impact. Let’s uncover the secrets of the brain together! Email [email protected] for more info🧠Please RT!

We are excited to announce that we will be having our 4th annual Methods in Neuroscience at Dartmouth Summer School from 8/6-8/16/23 exploring how minds interact. Application deadline is 5/31/2023. mindsummerschool.org

It's my great pleasure to announce the second edition of our Neuro-Openscience Workshop (#NOW2023) that will take place on November 22-23. Plenty of inspiring talks (1st day) and training for open tools (2nd day). Have a look at open-neuro.org and register (free)!

Stellar paper on acetylcholine function in the striatum by Erica Townsend nature.com/articles/s4159…

We are hiring two new Behavioral Neuroscience faculty at Dartmouth, one junior and one senior. Join us!! Assistant - apply.interfolio.com/130063 Associate - apply.interfolio.com/130080

⚡️NEW OPIOID VIRAL TOOL⚡️ Lead by @gsalimando in collab with Karl Deisseroth We developed a catalog of mu-opioid receptor promoters (MORp) for viral access to endogenous opioid-expressing cell types 🦠🧠🐁🐀🐒 nature.com/articles/s4146… 🧵for more info on use & where to order: