Honored and humbled by this award. Grateful for the amazing members of the lab -past and present- colleagues and mentors I have had the privilege of working with. Looking forward to #SANS2024 !

It’s a huge help to the public if you share your expertise. Here is some great advice for #scientists speaking to journalists (via SciLine)

I would add that you should send them a link to any relevant papers so they can include them in their reporting.

What would you add?

New work from @OlgaB23779771 using arterial spin labeling MRI to show re-perfusion of the left reading network predicts reading recovery after stroke:
Cerebral perfusion of the left reading network predicts recovery of reading in subacute to chronic stroke …wiley-com.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/doi/full/10.10…

Approach-avoidance conflict in major depression: Congruent neural findings in human and non-human primates sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper out w/ Mauricio Delgado in #JEPGeneral examining the benefits of reminiscing about past positive social experiences! ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31464507

'Deconditioning' - weakening an aversive memory by re-training with a much weaker, but still aversive, outcome, could be more effective than extinction training biorxiv.org/content/10.110… feat. Olavo Amaral (preprint)

New work by のりや using dynamic causal modeling to probe vmPFC and amygdala responses to reward-driven arousal and successful behavioral performance. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Bidirectional Associations Between Stress and Reward Processing in Children and Adolescents: A Longitudinal Neuroimaging Study biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S2451-…

Atypical Prefrontal–Amygdala Circuitry Following Childhood Exposure to Abuse: Links With Adolescent Psychopathology journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Amygdala, medial prefrontal cortex and glucocorticoid interactions produce stress-like effects on memory frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Individuals are more physiologically triggered by negative news than positive news stories, according to a new study that suggests a substantial audience for positive news exists. In PNAS: ow.ly/s8mK50vWbhU

Scientists' Understanding of Anxiety is Radically Evolving—But How Long Will it Take for Treatments to Catch Up?

Honored to be able to chime in alongside ⁦Joseph E. LeDoux "The Four Realms of Existence"⁩ and other field leaders! ⁦Salk Institute⁩ newsweek.com/2019/09/20/anx…

Where Does Value Come From?

by Keno Juechems & Christopher Summerfield
summerfieldlab @summerfieldlab.bsky.social
cell.com/trends/cogniti…

New work from Meg Speer on the value of recalling positive memories rich in social context. psycnet.apa.org/buy/2019-50834…

Great work assessing developmental trends in sensitivity to social rewards across adolescence (large cross-sectional sample of ages 11-28). Interested to see there are few 'peaks' (except admiration in late adolescence) - overall lots of complexity, sex diffs, etc.!

Can social media engagement be explained by reward learning? Yes! In our new preprint (w. David Amodio), we use RL modeling to explain the posting behavior of 4000+ individuals on several social media platforms: psyarxiv.com/78mh5 summary follows: (1/7)

The latest in Abigail Marsh & co's extraordinary program on extraordinary altruism:

Kidney donors exhibit greater brain pattern similarity than controls when experiencing pain versus observing it in others.

Cool extension of the empathy --> altruism link

nature.com/articles/s4159…

***New paper out from our lab***

Melissa Malvaez discovered a critical brain circuit that regulates reward learning & decision making

Here is what she found. Thread 👇

Free full text: rdcu.be/bvn4u

nature.com/articles/s4159…

From the amazing @DrChristyRae - although some theory suggests parental buffering is specific to children, we show parental presence boosts adolescents’ but not children’s regulation depending on the social context, and this is supported by the mpfc

Our newest with Nathaniel Daw Ross Otto & Norman Lab. Offline replay supports planning in human #reinforcementlearning . Happy to finally share the full open access version w supplements!
Too busy to read the whole thing? Here's a twitter summary 1/n
elifesciences.org/articles/32548