Brandon Richards
@brandonkrneuro.bsky.social
PhD candidate in the Behavioural Neuropharmacology lab at Macquarie University, Australia 🧠🐁| Interested in the zona incerta, learning, fear circuits, defensive behaviour
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Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/3X5lbUg
go.nature.com/3X5lbUg
From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
Nature - In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
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November 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake
go.nature.com/3X5lbUg
go.nature.com/3X5lbUg
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Keynote by the excellent Dr Lizzie Manning at Optogenetics Australia (@drlizziemanning.bsky.social)
February 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Keynote by the excellent Dr Lizzie Manning at Optogenetics Australia (@drlizziemanning.bsky.social)
One of my figures from mine and Christina’s (@dr-cjp.bsky.social) recent paper was chosen for the cover of this month’s issue of Journal of Neurochemistry! 🧠
You can check out the summary here doi.org/10.1111/jnc....
Glad to see those pretty zona incerta neurons seeing the spotlight!! ☺️
You can check out the summary here doi.org/10.1111/jnc....
Glad to see those pretty zona incerta neurons seeing the spotlight!! ☺️
January 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
One of my figures from mine and Christina’s (@dr-cjp.bsky.social) recent paper was chosen for the cover of this month’s issue of Journal of Neurochemistry! 🧠
You can check out the summary here doi.org/10.1111/jnc....
Glad to see those pretty zona incerta neurons seeing the spotlight!! ☺️
You can check out the summary here doi.org/10.1111/jnc....
Glad to see those pretty zona incerta neurons seeing the spotlight!! ☺️
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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Excited to share our latest research in @eLife:
We uncover how learning mechanisms shape dynamic defensive behaviors in mice, moving beyond the typical focus on freezing.🧠💡
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
#Neuroscience #PTSD #FearConditioning
Excited to share our latest research in @eLife:
We uncover how learning mechanisms shape dynamic defensive behaviors in mice, moving beyond the typical focus on freezing.🧠💡
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
#Neuroscience #PTSD #FearConditioning
Contributions of associative and non-associative learning to the dynamics of defensive ethograms
Associative and non-associative learning mechanisms summate to produce robust and complex conditioned behavior profiles, opening new avenues to in-depth investigations of defensive responses and threa...
doi.org
December 19, 2024 at 8:48 PM
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Excited to share our latest research in @eLife:
We uncover how learning mechanisms shape dynamic defensive behaviors in mice, moving beyond the typical focus on freezing.🧠💡
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
#Neuroscience #PTSD #FearConditioning
Excited to share our latest research in @eLife:
We uncover how learning mechanisms shape dynamic defensive behaviors in mice, moving beyond the typical focus on freezing.🧠💡
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
#Neuroscience #PTSD #FearConditioning
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🙋♀️ another one in the mass exodus to bluesky here! This is the latest from my lab, exploring the zona incerta onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @brandonkrneuro.bsky.social is the star of this story… follow him to find out more!
Relaxin family peptide receptor 3 (RXFP3) expressing cells in the zona incerta/lateral hypothalamus augment behavioural arousal
Relaxin family peptide receptor 3 (RXFP3) is an inhibitory G-protein coupled receptor expressed widely throughout the mammalian brain. We show that RXFP3-expressing cells in the mouse zona incerta an...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 14, 2024 at 8:37 AM
🙋♀️ another one in the mass exodus to bluesky here! This is the latest from my lab, exploring the zona incerta onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @brandonkrneuro.bsky.social is the star of this story… follow him to find out more!
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Very excited about this! It’ll be my first Pavlovian Society meeting, and I happen to know that Mel had scored an excellent spot to hold it!
🔥PAVLOVIAN 2025 will be in Sydney, Australia: August 7-10 🔥
To complement our already budding program, submit an abstract for an individual talk here: forms.gle/KJ2uBnMMkprf...
Due Jan 31, 2024
We will have a separate call for posters and the ECR data blitz. Stay tuned.
To complement our already budding program, submit an abstract for an individual talk here: forms.gle/KJ2uBnMMkprf...
Due Jan 31, 2024
We will have a separate call for posters and the ECR data blitz. Stay tuned.
November 13, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Very excited about this! It’ll be my first Pavlovian Society meeting, and I happen to know that Mel had scored an excellent spot to hold it!