Michael Noback

Postdoc at UCSD in the Young lab studying the cognitive effects of HIV infection

[Jared W Young 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏳️‍🌈 @JaredWYoung]

So glad this work is out and in an excellent special issue!
Working with an array of researchers we began identifying eeg biomarkers of behavior in humans and mice! We found one for effort!
Amphetamine increased effort in both species but did not move the #eeg #biomarker

[Psychonomic Society @Psychonomic_Soc]

#psynomCABN Special Issue! Elevated parietal alpha power is an EEG #biomarker for measuring motivation-related behavior in cross-species progressive ratio breakpoint tasks #amphetamine. @pharmichaelogy @JimCav @JaredWYoung https://t.co/1BGDciWfCr

[Michael Noback @pharmichaelogy]

Saw a pallet in the parking lot this morning stacked with cardboard boxes labeled "MICE" and thought huh, that doesn't seem like a very safe or secure way to transport animals, leaving them out in the open like that

Then I saw the boxes labeled "KEYBOARDS"

[ClickHole @ClickHole]

Sorry!

[Michael Noback @pharmichaelogy]

@Dr_Perreault @JaredWYoung @PsychiatryUcsd @UNM Thanks Melissa!

[Michael Noback @pharmichaelogy]

@martinowk @JaredWYoung @JimCav @PsychiatryUcsd @UNM Thanks Keri! Yeah it was great to get involved with the human side of things

[Michael Noback @pharmichaelogy]

🚨New paper from @JaredWYoung lab, in collaboration with Drs @JimCav, Greg Light, Neal Swerdlow, and John Brigman @PsychiatryUcsd @UNM
We showed that amphetamine increases motivation in humans and mice without affecting an EEG biomarker

https://t.co/GaVYNDHu3D

[Michael Noback @pharmichaelogy]

Thanks to everyone who took part in this study - Drs Savita Bhakta and Jo Talledo, as well as Juliana Kotz, Lindsay Benster, Benjamin Roberts, and John Nungaray, and @NIMHgov for funding task development research aimed at @NIMH_RDoC approaches!

[Michael Noback @pharmichaelogy]

Here we showed that the PRBT has cross-species pharmacological predictive validity - amphetamine increased effortful motivation in humans and mice. It didn’t affect a related EEG biomarker, but keep an eye out for more data from our group!

[Michael Noback @pharmichaelogy]

@SamanthaM_Ayoub Our one opportunity to get a picture together and I messed it up 😔

[Jared W Young 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏳️‍🌈 @JaredWYoung]

It's Tuesday poster session soon - you know what that means?! Our posters will be ON SHOW!
Come say hi and see some dazzling work from our great team inc. @pharmichaelogy (Doc Noback), @SamanthaM_Ayoub (Doc Ayoub), & the TL Doc Miranda and newly @SOBP travel awardee Ben Roberts

[Michael Noback @pharmichaelogy]

had a stress dream about an upcoming poster with some breakpoint results, however dream me decided to put pictures of keanu reeves and patrick swayze on the poster instead of data

[Michael Noback @pharmichaelogy]

when you’re acclimating a new group of mice to operant chambers and they’re still iffy about being taken out of the box at the end of the round

[Michael Noback @pharmichaelogy]

when someone asks what i do for a living:

[kesha @KeshaRose]

Just sitting here creeping on my animals. fucking love y’all.