Brandon Richards
@brandonkrneuro.bsky.social
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PhD candidate in the Behavioural Neuropharmacology lab at Macquarie University, Australia 🧠🐁| Interested in the zona incerta, learning, fear circuits, defensive behaviour
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Keynote by the excellent Dr Lizzie Manning at Optogenetics Australia (@drlizziemanning.bsky.social)
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One of my figures from mine and Christina’s (@dr-cjp.bsky.social) recent paper was chosen for the cover of this month’s issue of Journal of Neurochemistry! 🧠

You can check out the summary here doi.org/10.1111/jnc....

Glad to see those pretty zona incerta neurons seeing the spotlight!! ☺️
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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Excited to share our latest research in @eLife:
We uncover how learning mechanisms shape dynamic defensive behaviors in mice, moving beyond the typical focus on freezing.🧠💡
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
#Neuroscience #PTSD #FearConditioning
Contributions of associative and non-associative learning to the dynamics of defensive ethograms
Associative and non-associative learning mechanisms summate to produce robust and complex conditioned behavior profiles, opening new avenues to in-depth investigations of defensive responses and threa...
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Congrats Jonathan and team! ☺️
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Very excited about this! It’ll be my first Pavlovian Society meeting, and I happen to know that Mel had scored an excellent spot to hold it!
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🔥PAVLOVIAN 2025 will be in Sydney, Australia: August 7-10 🔥

To complement our already budding program, submit an abstract for an individual talk here: forms.gle/KJ2uBnMMkprf...

Due Jan 31, 2024

We will have a separate call for posters and the ECR data blitz. Stay tuned.