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Sjoerd Meijer @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Thrilled to have recently joined @mkflugge.bsky.social's lab at Oxford, where they just published this great work on amygdala-TUS and emotion processing! 🧠🥳

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Sjoerd Meijer @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

🧠 Can brain stimulation help socially anxious people approach what they fear? 😠😰 We used synchronized electrical brain stimulation to improve control over emotional behaviour in social anxiety, while scanning their brains to understand who responds best and why. 🆕📄 doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

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Sjoerd Meijer @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🧠 What makes threat memories so hard to forget? 🐍😱 Using focused ultrasound we provide causal evidence that the human amygdala drives rapid threat learning 🐍⚡ and determines how resistant those memories become to subsequent extinction 🐍🚫 🆕📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The human amygdala in threat learning and extinction

Ultrasonic neuromodulation of the human amygdala provides causal evidence for its role in forming persistent threat memories.

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