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Maxwell Madden
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Neuroscience | Cognitive/Behavioral Flexibility | Neuromodulation |Anterior Cingulate Cortex | Claustrum | Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University | he/him/his
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maxwellmadden.bsky.social
This is really helpful! Thank you.

How high/low should i be looking for with those numbers/what numbers would you say are acceptable?
October 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
maxwellmadden.bsky.social
The rig will be used for fluorescence-guided patch, but I have a secret hope to combine it with 1P-calcium sensor imaging for a maybe experiment.
October 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
maxwellmadden.bsky.social
The rig will be used for fluorescence-guided patch, but I have a secret hope to combine it with 1P-calcium sensor imaging for an experiment.
October 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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"While ChatGPT use has been linked to suicides and mental-health hospitalizations among heavy users, this appears to be the first documented murder involving a troubled person who had been engaging extensively with an AI chatbot."
While ChatGPT use has been linked to suicides and mental-health hospitalizations among heavy users, this appears to be the first documented murder involving a troubled person who had been engaging extensively with an AI chatbot. Soelberg posted hours of videos of himself scrolling through his conversations with ChatGPT on social media in the months before he died. The tone and language of the conversations are strikingly similar to the delusional chats many other people have been reporting in recent months. A key feature of AI chatbots is that, generally, the bot “doesn’t push back,” said Dr. Keith Sakata, a psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco who has treated 12 patients over the past year who were hospitalized for mental-health emergencies involving AI use. “Psychosis thrives when reality stops pushing back, and AI can really just soften that wall.” OpenAI said ChatGPT encouraged Soelberg to contact outside professionals. The Wall Street Journal’s review of his publicly available chats showed the bot suggesting he reach out to emergency services in the context of his allegation that he’d been poisoned.
August 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
maxwellmadden.bsky.social
Thanks! We gotta catch up sometime soon.
August 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
maxwellmadden.bsky.social
Thank you!
August 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
maxwellmadden.bsky.social
Hello, I would like to be added to the science feed please!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Serotonin and psilocybin activate 5-HT1B receptors to suppress cortical signaling through the claustrum - Nature Communications
Our basic understanding of neuromodulation in the claustrum remains limited. Here Madden et al., identify a key mechanism by which serotonin and the psychedelic psilocybin modulate cortical signalling...
www.nature.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM