Academic Position in Neuromodulation Research, Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine in Calgary, ...

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Dorsal and ventral noradrenergic neurons in the locus coeruleus form topographic subpopulations whose projection patterns and activity encode choice switching, reward-prediction errors and disregard o...

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How Early-Life Stress Sensitizes Young Mice to Stressors Rebekah L. Rashford, Lisa Z. Fang, Michael DeBerardine, Hye Ji J. Kim, Laura W. Hirschfield, et al. (see article [e2217252026][1]) Adverse ...

The basolateral amygdala dopamine system has received little attention. Here, authors show that BLA dopamine plays a unique role in learning, by encoding the emotional salience of sensory cues to supp...

The mu opioid receptor system has long been recognized for its role in regulating ingestive behaviors and food palatability. However, beyond their rob…

Psychedelic drugs show remarkable potential for treating psychiatric disorders, but the mechanisms underlying their therapeutic effects remain relatively unknown. Here, we demonstrate that psilocybin ...

Food intake is governed by two interacting drives. The homeostatic hunger drive regulates food intake to fulfill caloric needs while the hedonic drive promotes intake of palatable foods outside of cal...

We report here that microglia exert a surprisingly discrete but functionally critical influence on synaptic plasticity in the mouse hippocampus. Treatment of adult male mice with colony-stimulating…

The Fraser Lab at the University of Minnesota (https://fraserlab.psych.umn.edu/) is recruiting a full-time research technician to support the lab. As a part of the Department of Psychology we are involved in the greater neuroscience research community at the University of Minnesota which provides excellent access to training and professional development. The Fraser Lab is interested in the neurobiological basis of motivated behavior and investigates how defined brain circuits contribute to behavioral regulation. We make use of modern neuroscience approaches to record and manipulate neural activity in real-time as rodents perform complex behavioral tasks to relate precise aspects of neural activity to well-defined psychological processes. To do so, we regularly use optogenetics, chemogenetics, calcium imaging, biosensors, pharmacology, and immunohistochemistry. Our ultimate goal is to decipher the neural mechanisms regulating behavior and to characterize how these are altered in psychiatric illness, such as addiction, or by differences in lived experience, such as after early life adversity, to potentially identify novel therapeutics. We seek a team member who can play a lead role in lab operations, collaborate closely with the PI, and engage in team-building and growth.Duties:Laboratory logistics, maintenance and operations (30%):

studies how the brain represents and uses uncertainty and she also co-founded the online summer school, Neuromatch Academy

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This randomized clinical trial evaluates whether, compared with placebo, the use of psilocybin in the treatment of cocaine use disorder yields a higher percentage of cocaine abstinent days, a greater ...

UC Berkeley’s learning management platform bCourses, the software that all 43,000 students use to access their class materials, has been seized by hackers. When students attempt to log in, they

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Neuropsychopharmacology - Lasting effects of early-life oxytocin treatment on LTP and episodic memory in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome

Modifying behavior in response to changing environmental conditions is a crucial adaptive function. This capacity is evident when animals curtail the …

CONNECT SEMINAR SERIES 2025-26 CONNECT is an initiative supported by UC Irvine’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory to build networks and share resources and expertise in the…

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Integrated structural and dynamic analyses uncover strategies to target the δ-opioid receptor for improved analgesic efficacy.

Bridging the Lab and the Clinic to Address Addiction and Comorbid Affective and Psychosis Disorders Please register below for the UC Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience (ICAN) Symposium on Wednes...

Reward predictions not only promote reward pursuit, they also shape how reward is pursed. Such predictions are supported by environmental cues that signal reward availability and probability. Such cue...

Expression of agouti signalling protein in neurons in the medial preoptic area is increased by group housing and negatively associated with care, and overexpression of Agouti reduces care and enhances...