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Madelyn Hjort

@mmhjort.bsky.social
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Postdoc at UMNeurosci PhD from UW Neuroscience

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Madelyn Hjort @mmhjort.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This paper was truly a team effort. Thank you doesn’t begin to cover the contributions of coauthors Garret, @steinmetzneuro.bsky.social, @danielawitten.bsky.social, Michael, Marta, Adam, Ethan, Zoe, and Elena but my sincere and genuine thanks nonetheless.
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Madelyn Hjort @mmhjort.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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Madelyn Hjort @mmhjort.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Thrilled to share our work out in @nature.com today! Linking flexibility modeling, single-cell imaging, and targeted optogenetics allowed us to characterize how some prefrontal neurons, and mPFC-VTA neurons in particular, drive contingency degradation behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Prefrontal to ventral tegmental area dynamics drive contingency degradation - Nature
This work provides a mechanistic understanding of how certain prefrontal circuits in the rodent brain permit flexibility to selectively stop learned behaviours through interactions with core subcortic...
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