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Just out! My review with Aaron Blaisdell and Dr. Melissa Sharpe on the neural and associative substrates of higher-order conditioning and what it means for dopamine to be involved in both. frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

What a weekend to ring in my 26th 🥳🧠✨

Dr. Nadia Chaudhri passed away yesterday evening, having reached the end of her road with ovarian cancer. She leaves behind her Sun and Moon, a loving extended family, colleagues and students, friends around the world, and so many others who have been touched by her & her story 1/n

Stoked that this in Neuropsychopharmacology today! @_sjmillard and I have been thinking about how to leverage the new #Dopamine data into models of the reinforcement-learning deficits in schizophrenia for some time. Grateful to have done it with experts Dr. Katie Karlsgodt & @Winkytheelf! 🙌

Me the rest of the day after submitting this F31 😮‍💨

Congrats to Benjamin Seitz who came up with the idea of manipulation VTA DA activity during backward conditioning. And thanks to Ivy Hoang and Aaron Blaisdell for the fun and stimulating collaboration! 🙌

Thrilled to share data from this project with Ivy Hoang, Aaron Blaisdell, Dr. Melissa Sharpe. "Learning in reverse: Dopamine errors drive excitatory and inhibitory components of backward conditioning in an outcome-specific manner". biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Out now in Current Biology ! Many thanks to Dr. Melissa Sharpe Ivy Hoang Aaron Blaisdell and Lauren DiFazio for all their help on this! authors.elsevier.com/a/1fIdG3QW8R%7…

Glorious week in Sydney with the lab! And good time to announce the bitter-sweet news that the Sharpe Lab will transition from UCLA to USYD Psychology in July 2023!

Good morning to me, a PhD candidate 🥹✨ we’re almost there!

Whirlwind 48 hours in ☀️ LA! Ivy Hoang’s phenomenal defense (congrats Dr. Hoang you are a ⭐️), catching up with awesome friends and colleagues, and packing up the lab. The 🇺🇸 Sharpe Lab UCLA is officially wrapped 😢 Now ✈️ to Nashville for Vanderbilt Center For Addiction Research’s science day!

Surrounded by an overwhelming amount of love and support, yesterday I defended and became a doctor! 🧠✨ Forever grateful to my stellar committee, and my advisor and mentor, Dr. Melissa Sharpe

So excited to have our most recent #dopamine paper led by @_sjmillard and Ivy Hoang out in Nature Neuroscience today! rdcu.be/dHL7l

Physiological stimulation of VTA dopamine neurons does not function as a reward and does not endow cues with a reward representations. But, high frequency stim is represented as a goal that motivates behavior. Ivy Hoang Dr. Melissa Sharpe USYD Psychology UCLA nature.com/articles/s4159…

The Giardino Lab welcomes new postdoc Dr. Ivy Hoang Ivy Hoang to our group. Ivy's PhD work focused on hypothalamic-midbrain circuitry in learning and methamphetamine's effects on decision-making. Welcome to Stanford, Ivy!

We're thrilled to share the lab's first preprint- on CRF neurons, hypocretin/orexin signaling, and BNST neurophysiology in excess alcohol drinking and withdrawal-enhanced anxiety behavior! A collaborative effort with Julie Kauer and Anne Vassalli, led by postdoc Dr. Yihe Ma

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