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Tom McHugh

@tommchugh.bsky.social
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Grew up in Chicago, 4 years in Berkeley then another 15 in Boston to become a ‘real’ scientist. Running my lab in Tokyo since 2009, still shit with my Japanese

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Josh Johansen @jojolab.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
New paper from @ykneurores.bsky.social in our lab 📢 We show body size predicts defensive behavioral strategy; smaller animals adopt active avoidance, larger ones favor freezing, while sex and age don’t drive the effect. A clear demonstration that traits matter. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Body size predicts the selection of defensive behavioral strategies
Survival depends on the ability to respond appropriately to threats, yet the selection of defensive behaviors varies among individuals with distinct b…
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Tom McHugh @tommchugh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
New paper from Yuichi Makino and Yi Wang, building on Yuichi’s earlier work on physiological signatures of memory age, here he adds data from the amygdala and Yi's ML skills to predict the age of a memory from raw LFP and offer insight to the neurobiology, www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Multi-regional control of amygdalar dynamics reliably reflects fear memory age - Nature Communications
Differential neural dynamics in the amygdala that define recall of different ages of fear memory remain not fully understood. Here, the authors show by both experiments and modeling that multiregional...
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