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Excited to share this! The Calipari Lab we show that dopamine release in the NAc is not a reward prediction error signal, rather, dopamine signals perceived saliency. We provide a new computational model to explain our data and previous work (A THREAD 👇): cell.com/current-biolog…

New preprint from @emmagfollman and Maxime Chevée showing how reinforcement contingencies influence behavioral strategies used in operant tasks This was fun with some great analysis and a cool use of magnets to look at exactly how mice press lever. doi.org/10.1101/2022.0…

Keep your spark of joy for the mystery of the brain alive! 🧠 Come see the latest frontier of the wild & wonderful #claustrum at our #fens2022 symposium tomorrow morning 945am Hall Solange Brown Cerebrity 🧠👑🔬 rodriguez-carleton-labs & Lorenz Fenk presenting Ami Citri & I are co-chairing

Thanks SfN Journals for highlighting the work Courtney Kim and I recently published in #eNeuro! blog.eneuro.org/2024/02/beyond…

Excited to see a project from grad school, done with Stephanie Perez and Jennifer Donegan, published in SchizRes this week! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

It's official! Check out the incredible speaker line-up for the VCAR Science Day next Thursday! Don't forget to mark your calendars for April 18th and stay tuned throughout the week as we highlight each of our speakers in more detail.

If you’re going to #SfN24, come check out our minisymposium! The Effects of Food Consumption on the Circuitry of Reward and Decision Making featuring @drstephieb, @LexKravitz, ME Baugh, stephanie Kullmann and Miriam Bocarsly 📅Saturday Oct 5 2pm – 4:30pm 📍MCP room S100A

Our new preprint! Combining scRNA-Seq & circuit mapping to describe variation in cortical neurons w/ Brown lab. biorxiv.org/content/early/…

Loyal Goff & Solange Brown Johns Hopkins Medicine new findings on neuronal identity & transcriptional heterogeneity kavlijhu.org/news/14