Moghaddam Lab

[Moghaddam Lab @MoghaddamLab]

Congratulations to all awardees including our lab mate Merridee Lefner #EBPS2025

[Eur Behav Pharm Soc. @EurBehavPharm]

Congratulations to this year's cohort of travel awardees. The committee had an incredibly hard job with over 100 applications! We look forward to seeing you all in Spain next month. Attendees, the data blitz highlighting the awardee's work is on Day 1 at 15:10. #EBPS2025

[Moghaddam Lab @MoghaddamLab]

New work from our lab demonstrates that when contingencies shift from punishment to reward, flexible behavior is related to increases in VTA GABA (and not dopamine!) neuron activity 👉 https://t.co/cRqL6J6CE8

[Bita Moghaddam بيتا مقدم @bita137]

New lab paper by Merridee Lefner identifying a novel role for VTA GABA neurons in behavioral flexibility

GABA, but NOT dopamine, neuron activation correlates with behavior when cues unexpectedly shift from predicting punishment to predicting reward

https://t.co/qig7j7ikUi

[Bita Moghaddam بيتا مقدم @bita137]

🎊 new preprint
Super excited about this data because almost 30 years 😱after our series of papers on dopamine, NMDA, and schizophrenia came out, we may have mechanistic insight about latent presentation of psychosis and abnormalities in dopamine dynamics in schizophrenia

🧵1/n

[Neuropsychopharmacology @npp_journal]

Congratulations to @bita137 on receiving the #ACNP2023 Dolores Shockley Diversity and Inclusion Advancement Award from @ACNPorg

You can watch Dr. Moghaddam's acceptance video here: https://t.co/9ouJCcrwDi

[Bita Moghaddam بيتا مقدم @bita137]

New preprint from the @MoghaddamLab
No eXplanation of the data on this site so you just have to read the paper to learn how different cortical regions change their activation of reward-motivated actions in a model of learned anxiety
https://t.co/orUVmbMdds

[Moghaddam Lab @MoghaddamLab]

Congratulations to @merridiesel for receiving her F32 on the first submission awarded by @NIDAnews 🎉 Keep an eye out for her work focusing on top-down regulation of flexible behavior!

[Moghaddam Lab @MoghaddamLab]

Huge congratulations to our lab mate @Dr_Bediya for winning the @ACNPorg travel award!!

[Moghaddam Lab @MoghaddamLab]

For #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth, Dr. Alejandro Torrado Pacheco discusses his latest research and the potential therapeutic role for psilocybin on the @TheLabRatChat podcast: https://t.co/B2QgkIsvb9

[OHSU News @OHSUNews]

Dr. Bita Moghaddam says findings bolster the case for #psilocybin use in conjunction with clinical treatment for conditions like depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. @bita137
https://t.co/x9XwdmfMg3

[Moghaddam Lab @MoghaddamLab]

👏Latest paper from the lab led by Dr. Torrado Pacheco 👏👏

[Neuropsychopharmacology @npp_journal]

Now online in @npp_journal from Alejandro Torrado Pacheco, @bita137 and colleagues - "Acute psilocybin enhances cognitive flexibility in rats" @OHSUNews
https://t.co/hBMW2aDDE5

[Moghaddam Lab @MoghaddamLab]

New work from the lab led by the incomparable Dr. Torrado Pacheco with contributions from rotating student Randall Olson (from @DrAtheirAbbas lab) and RA Gabi Garza (now grad student @UMich 🙌)

[Bita Moghaddam بيتا مقدم @bita137]

4/n Consistent with this idea, we find that psilocybin robustly improves cognitive flexibility in rats using a task where animals switched multiple times between previously learned strategies in response to uncued changes in the environment https://t.co/FRTtMk2XIw

[Moghaddam Lab @MoghaddamLab]

We strive to be the lab with the most cake

[Bita Moghaddam بيتا مقدم @bita137]

Neuroscience of mental health outreach at its best!

Excellent turnout and wise words from @MoghaddamLab member Michelle Kielhold

[Moghaddam Lab @MoghaddamLab]

Beautiful work led by lab alumni @SweytaLohani

[Moghaddam Lab @MoghaddamLab]

Beautiful work led by lab alumni @SweytaLohani

[Jess Cardin @jess_cardin]

New work with @mjhigley lab is out! Spearheaded by postdocs @SweytaLohani and Andrew Moberly, in collaboration with @HBenisty and @yulonglilab. 2-color imaging of the relationship between ACh and neural activity across states in the awake cortex in 🐭. https://t.co/ZlfP4FzKTV

[Bita Moghaddam بيتا مقدم @bita137]

I am not attending #SfN2022 but @MoghaddamLab is well represented. Go check out the posters!!

[Bita Moghaddam بيتا مقدم @bita137]

What a privilege (and fun experience) to talk IRL to a packed house of several thousand😱about the work of @MoghaddamLab

#ECNP2022

[Moghaddam Lab @MoghaddamLab]

Congratulations to @Dr_Bediya on receiving her K99! 🎉

[Moghaddam Lab @MoghaddamLab]

New paper from our lab: during learning of a punishment risk task, action execution and reward (but not the punisher) influences activity in dmPFC & VTA, with diazepam effects on neural activity. Work led by David Jacobs, Madeleine Allen & @juncholp

https://t.co/37yAppsMM2