Moghaddam Lab
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Congratulations to this year's cohort of travel awardees. The committee had an incredibly hard job with over 100 applications! We look forward to seeing you all in Spain next month. Attendees, the data blitz highlighting the awardee's work is on Day 1 at 15:10. #EBPS2025
New lab paper by Merridee Lefner identifying a novel role for VTA GABA neurons in behavioral flexibility GABA, but NOT dopamine, neuron activation correlates with behavior when cues unexpectedly shift from predicting punishment to predicting reward sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Reductions of Grin2a in adolescent dopamine neurons confers aberrant salience and related psychosis phenotype biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci
4/n Consistent with this idea, we find that psilocybin robustly improves cognitive flexibility in rats using a task where animals switched multiple times between previously learned strategies in response to uncued changes in the environment biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
New work with @mjhigley lab is out! Spearheaded by postdocs @SweytaLohani and Andrew Moberly, in collaboration with @HBenisty and @yulonglilab. 2-color imaging of the relationship between ACh and neural activity across states in the awake cortex in 🐭. nature.com/articles/s4159…
Powerhouse & provocative keynote from @bita137 on the evolution of glutamate hypothesis of schizophrenia & utility of animal models- Great way to open #ECNP2022
