Calu Lab
calulabbmore.bsky.social
Calu Lab
@calulabbmore.bsky.social
behavioral neuroscience | brain mechanisms | learning | motivation | psychedelics | individual differences
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We are so excited to announce that Chase Francis, PhD, will be joining us this September as an Assistant Professor in UM-MIND and the Department of Psychiatry!

The Francis Lab's goal is to develop new non-invasive strategies to treat stress and mood-related disorders. Welcome, @phdsred.bsky.social!
May 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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I am thrilled to announce that the Aery Jones lab will be starting in January 2026 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore!
We are so excited to announce that Emily Aery Jones, PhD, will be joining us this January as an Assistant Professor in UM-MIND and the Department of Neurobiology!

Emily's work explores the dynamics of hippocampal inputs in learning and Alzheimer's disease. Welcome, @emilyaeryjones.bsky.social!
May 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨

Out today, @jackiegio.bsky.social discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A dual-pathway architecture for stress to disrupt agency and promote habit - Nature
Adaptive decision-making often requires an understanding of our agency in a situation; however, chronic stress can disrupt agency and promote inflexible, habitual behaviour by turning off a brain path...
www.nature.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
ENeuro Featured work by Dr. Cassie Stapf, recent @calulabbmore.bsky.social PhD, check it out if you haven’t already! www.eneuro.org/content/12/1...
February 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM