HalassaLab

Michael Halassa Lab
School of Medicine
Tufts University

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Congrats to Mike for his work @NatMentHealth about which psychosis patient subgroups may benefit most from treatment with muscarinic receptor agonist Cobenfy: https://t.co/vVU1s4aClL
#schizophrenia #precisionpsychiatry

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@PalvaLab Not even a year has passed and some of our discussions are already bearing fruits.

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We had a fantastic time with our visitors from Helsinki last week: Satu and Matias Palva.
Thanks for their exciting presentations to the lab and fruit full discussions of future endeavors!

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Check out this preprint from work with our fantastic colleagues @PalvaLab in Helsinki
https://t.co/gJnrhrNXiy
Thanks for a great collaboration!

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Congratulations to Norman and Arghya, who have been awarded with this years "Neuroscience Chair's Award for Postdoctoral Research" @TuftsMedSchool honoring their work in the recent discovery of a prefrontal transthalamic role in decision making under uncertainty. #Tupaia, #Nature

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The promise is transformative: treatments designed with the whole ‘hardware’ in mind, and guided by interfacing with its ‘software’.

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Why Mental Health Treatments Need Algorithmic "Flight Simulators" - read more at #cellreportsmedicine
https://t.co/4kui44cosJ

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But combining a drug that enhances a neurochemical feature broadly with targeted neurostimulation that augments these benefits to specific circuits could. Pairing such an approach with appropriately-timed behavioral therapy may allow for the brain to be re-wired for recovery.

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Congratulations to Arghya for receiving an Early Career Investigator Travel Fellowship Award from the @SOBP Society of Biological Psychiatry!

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Huiwen and Navi are going to present their amazing work at #Cosyne2025. Go check out their work if you get the chance:
"A direct link between prefrontal E/I balance and executive dysfunction in schizophrenia" and "A prefrontal to amygdala pathway for adaptive sleep interruption"