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New paper with @catehartley.bsky.social How does the reward structure of the environment influence the specificity with which children, adolescents, and adults learn and remember information? See preprint 🧵 and paper for our efforts to answer to this! #PsychSciSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... new lab paper from the fantastic @zhilinsu.bsky.social with wonderful collaborators 🌟

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The cortical insulation of addiction in the brain In the insular cortex, drug addiction would be represented by the creation of a new ‘need’ axis in population activity space that would be orthogonal to other more natural needs journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

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Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists dramatically delay alcohol intoxication Since the speed with which a drug produces its effects influences its addictive liability, this mechanism may explain how GLP-1R agonists can reduce alcohol intake Insightful study 👏 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Excited to share our latest preprint looking at the neuroanatomical basis of impulsivity in youth! 🧠

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⏰ Deadline Monday (28th) for @unibirmingham.bsky.social & @unileiden.bsky.social Computational Social Cognition summer school. Don't miss keynotes by Matthew Rushworth, @dianatamir.bsky.social & @davidamodio.bsky.social www.compsoccog.com ⬇️ Only text response questions in the short application:

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CPCR faculty David Yaden (@existwell.bsky.social) spoke with Johns Hopkins Medicine to discuss evidence-based messaging about psychedelic research, informed consent, and adverse events surveillance. Read it here: www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/article...

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Excellent review article by David Kearns on the role of the behavioral economic context in rats’ choice between drug and non-drug rewards This article also includes a special section on behavioral data that do not fit well with behavioral economics link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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🎉 New paper out in #ScientificReports! We studied how younger & older adults integrate self- and other-related values during decisions. Huge thanks to the amazing team! 🙌 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #prosocial #aging #DDM @anrei.bsky.social

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Tips for getting started with Bayesian statistics dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

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🚨 Check out this new review "Computational Perspectives on Cognition in Anorexia Nervosa" by Marta Radzikowska, @alexandrapike.bsky.social and Sam Hall-McMaster Now out in Computational Psychiatry 👇 cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....

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Electroceuticals are expanding psychiatry’s toolbox | Doctors are turning to new tech for patients w/ #TreatmentResistantDepression & #OCD. Weighing in👉 @mountsinainyc.bsky.social neurologist Dr. Helen Mayberg & neurosurgeon Dr. Brian Kopell @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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When we use TMS to treat depression, we think it alters neural activity in a deep brain structure known as the subgenual anterior cingulate (sgACC). But this is hard to test directly, until our preprint with @coreykeller.bsky.social, @neuro-engineer.bsky.social, Nick Trapp, and Aaron Boes (UIowa) 1/

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🚨 @markkho.bsky.social & I are hiring a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & computational psychiatry 💻 Ideal candidates have experience w/ multi-player web-based experiments & computational modeling 📅 Review begins April 18, 2025 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809

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🤔 Interested in models of social interaction and computational psychiatry? 🤗 If so, @shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social and I are seeking a highly motivated and talented postdoc to work on these topics! Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/165809

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I'm always impressed when I read an article about work I was involved in that summarizes better than what I feel capable of : www.brainpost.co/weekly-brain...

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Really proud to start the year by sharing our new review in @endosocjournals.bsky.social on the roles of GLP-1 in eating and obesity treatment, led by superstar postdoc @laurenjonesucl.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/endo/article... 🧪🧠📈 #neuroscience #neuroskyence #GLP-1 #obesity #wegovy #ozempic

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NEW STUDY! Researchers Randall Ellis, @neurovoice.bsky.social, et al. at the Icahn School of Medicine have found unique molecular signature & genes in the orbitofrontal cortex associated w/ heroin-seeking behavior. OUT NOW in Biological Psychiatry👉 www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

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New preprint! We trained an RNN using RL to solve a decision making task used to characterize suboptimal decision making by Schizophrenic patients. First project exploring comp psych models, thanks to @adam-manoogian.bsky.social @shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social @bqian.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social

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We have multiple openings for basic addiction scientists interested in pursuing translational research within the Kahlert Institute for Addiction Medicine @kahlertumsom.bsky.social apply @ umb.taleo.net/careersectio... and learn about our institute @ addiction.umaryland.edu

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getting this paper published was a bit painful but I am proud of it: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We use deep RL to find mechanisms that help (real) people sustain the commons. Well done to Raphael Koster and Miruna Pislar (not on BlueSky). non-paywalled version on arxiv.

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1/7 Our paper on individual variability in decision-making is finally out in @nature.com! Inspired by the classic work by Mante and Sussillo, we trained many rats to solve context-dependent decision-making, and we found that different brains use different neural mechanisms to solve the same task!

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Interested in an update on connectomic and adaptive deep brain stimulation for obsessive compulsive disorder? Take a look at our summary of this exciting field and how things could be brought together out now in BPS: www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000... A brief 🧵

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Delighted our ( @jonroiser.bsky.social @profrobhoward.bsky.social) paper is now out in @brain1878.bsky.social ! 🎉🧠 We show that #Parkinson's #depression may stem from a reduction in reward sensitivity that is unresponsive to dopaminergic medication: 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/brai... 🧵⬇️

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🚨 New paper 🚨 Out in @commspsychol.bsky.social: "Manipulating attention facilitates cooperation" with Claire Lugrin and @ccruff.bsky.social We use gaze data and display manipulations in one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma games and find that these manipulations can drive choices through attention 👇

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The narrow time window of dopamine credit assignment Dopamine selectively strengthens neurons directly involved in behaviors that prompt dopamine release How can acquisition of behavior occur with long delayed reinforcement? www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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We are #hiring! The Sweis Lab for Translational Neuroeconomics is looking for talented postbacs interested in basic & translational neuroscience research studying how the #brain makes decisions at Mount Sinai in Manhattan, NY. See job posting below. Please repost! 🧠 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

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Opioids, obesity and anorexia An exploration of the involvement of brain endogenous opioid receptors in obesity and anorexia nervosa, two disorders associated with dysregulated feeding behavior. This paper also discusses links with addiction. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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🧪 Training the next generation of scientists is now more important than ever! 👩🏽‍🔬🧑🏽‍🔬 🚨 PAID summer internship opportunities at our Seaver Center for undergrad students interested in #autism research 🔬 🧠 🧬 🙏 share at your institution/with your students labs.icahn.mssm.edu/derubeislab/...

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Excited to have my PhD project paper exploring the network mechanisms of neuromodulation accepted for publication! We show how deep brain stimulation and medication exert a shared modulation of motor network synchrony in Parkinson's disease.

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Excited to share the Saez lab’s latest work exploring the neural basis of human decision-making! Our new #JNeurosci study sheds light on local vs brain-wide activity underlying economic choices in the human brain. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... (1/7)

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Nature published a misguided op-ed on using LLM's in peer review. The author suggested LLM's could be an aid. But I was interested in a larger question. Can ChatGPT do a peer reivew? So I uploaded a first-submission manuscript for it to review. I also have human reviews for comparison.

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Make use of our public database of Postdoc fellowships (private foundations, federal agencies). It's downloadable and free. We list 290 different fellowships and funding opportunities, along with description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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It’s #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek #EDAW. If you’ve ever been affected, consider contributing to our research (sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...) - results from the study shown in the post below indicate interoception may be an important treatment target. Image credit: @lucysta02475610.bsky.social!

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Thrilled to share our new paper in PNAS on bargaining in the "wild" (eBay). We find that bargainers reveal private information by taking hours longer to reject good offers and accept bad offers. We can predict bargaining outcomes from response times. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/res... 1/3

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NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

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The link for this position had gone down for a bit; it's back up, and I am still looking for a postdoc excited to work with human intracranial data. Well-suited for animal electrophysiologists looking to jump to human data; all that's required is coding expertise and signal processing experience!

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Effective therapy is so much more than saying the right words in the right order. Chatbots posing as therapists are dangerous. Some products "claim to have advanced degrees from specific universities, like Stanford" Glad the APA is speaking out about this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/h...

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An eternally long delay to drug reward In this work, we trained rats to report, so to speak, a subjective estimate of the delay of i.v. cocaine reward Their verdict: few tens of seconds, an eternity for rats which explains why cocaine is so low on their value ladder www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

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If you want to learn how to use computational modeling in psychiatry or if you want to learn more about different computational modeling approaches this is the best place to go: SAVE THE DATE for the #CPCZurich2025 #CompPsychiatry www.translationalneuromodeling.org/cpcourse/

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Anyone have a successful @bbrfoundation.bsky.social #NARSAD grant application they're willing to share with me? 🙏 🧠 #psychiatry

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💡 When making choices—like picking a flat, a job, or a romantic partner—when should we stop looking and commit? Our new study from @rhulpsychology.bsky.social published in Communications Psychology explores how biased expectations about future options shape our decisions. 🧵👇

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Funded PhD: Apply by Feb 24th for a PhD with James Goulding, Evgeniya Lukinova (Nottingham) and myself (Birmingham) to work on consumer behavior, big data, machine learning, behavioral experiments, and eye-tracking: jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ917/p.... Please share with anyone who might be interested!

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🚨Amidst all the uncertainty at NIH Welcome Leap just launched an important new $50M program in Women’s Health👩🏻‍🔬🧠 CARE focuses on the link between Alzheimer’s and perimenopausal hormonal changes wellcomeleap.org/care/ Note: full indirects! Please share widely to support women’s health 🙏🏼

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Alcohol Choice Outside or Inside a Brain Scanner Environment A Sobering Study on the Challenges of Studying the Neural Processes Involved in Alcohol Choice in Humans onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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