Maya Opendak
@maya-opendak.bsky.social
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Developmental neurobiology of social behavior -- www.opendaklab.org Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Calling all amygdaloids!!! The #AmygdalaGRC is coming up this summer in Barcelona.

We’ve got talks, posters, networking, power hour, and tons of fun planned.
👀 the program 👇🏻

We’re accepting folks on a rolling basis, apply soon to make sure you get a spot: www.grc.org/amygdala-fun...
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We ask 3 main questions: (1) How are rewarding stimuli defined for infants and children? (2) Do adult-defined neural reward circuits also support early reward behavior? And, (3) how can early circuit perturbation impact infant and adult circuit function?
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So excited to share our Perspective out this week in Translational Psychiatry! We provide a conceptual framework for studying brain function in infancy. A true labor of love and hopefully useful for many related questions! @drbcallaghan.bsky.social
Open access link:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Understanding the development of a functional brain circuit: reward processing as an illustration - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Understanding the development of a functional brain circuit: reward processing as an illustration
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