Happy weekend! Don't forget to submit an abstract to attend the SfN annual meeting in one of the best cities in the USA, Chicago! Do you like amazing art, music, dance, architecture, and food? You'll love Chicago! (I do- I grew up in Chicagoland!) sfn.org/meetings/neuro…

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Happy to see this out in Neuron. Huikun Wang, a staff scientist in our lab, demonstrates that ventromedial prefrontal cortical dynorphin signaling constrains threat-driven passive defensive behavior and switches in network states. Thread below.

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Congrats to my lab neighbor Takeoka lab!

Chickadees activate unique neural “barcodes” each time they hide food. These barcoded #memories then light up in the brain when they retrieve it.

More in Cell:
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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute Selmaan Chettih, Emily Mackevicius, Stephanie Hale, & Dmitriy Aronov

i plan to move to Korea later this year, & will soon hire at all levels (students, postdocs, staff scientists, junior PIs) -

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my lab in Japan will run till at least 2025. RIKEN has been nothing but the dream job. but hopefully the above explains it. 1/2

Happy to share our latest paper, doi.org/10.1038/s41467… We asked a pretty simple question about the role of feedback inhibition in CA1 and how it impacts ripples, place coding and sparsity of activity. This all started many years ago when Chinnakkaruppan Adaikkan was a visiting student

🚨🚨 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
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Rebecca Jordan and I are organising a CosyneMeeting workshop on 5th March to bridge experiments and theory on the function of the locus coeruleus! Great line-up of speakers: Joshua P Johansen, Nelson Totah, Vincent Breton-Provencher, Mac Shine, Zhixiao Su, Brandon Munn, Eli Muller, Alfred Kaye

In eLife - the journal: Functionally refined encoding of threat memory by distinct populations of basal forebrain cholinergic projection neurons doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

New preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… This is the result of a huge project lead by my former LeDoux Lab colleagues Chris Cain and Rob Sears, with a last minute assist by my grad student Matthew R Alwood and me. I think this paper reports some important discoveries, so: a 🧵 1/n

New lab pre-print from Mayumi Watanabe's thesis work on prefrontal control of the brainstem noradrenaline system during emotional regulation: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…