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Madelyn Hjort

@BrainMadelyn

Postdoc @UMNeurosci
PhD from @UW_Neuroscience in Stuber Lab
B.S. Neuroscience/Genetics from @umncbs
Minneapolis, MN sites.google.com/umn.edu/madely… Joined April 2020
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Madelyn Hjort @BrainMadelyn
Congrats @OutRaajeous and team!
I had a very positive experience working with Raaj on this project— I encourage anyone interested in continuing to reshape how we think about neuropeptide signaling during learned behavior to consider the Gowrishankar lab, now at MUSC.
Raaj Gowrishankar @outRaajeous Aug 31
This work is now online!

cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Many thanks to @mbruchas for the mentorship, our co-authors, reviewers and @NIDAnews for the funding.

If you're interested in following up on how endogenous opioids promote motivated behavior, my lab @neuro_MUSC is hiring!
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Madelyn Hjort @BrainMadelyn
Thrilled to share our work out in @Nature! Linking flexibility modeling, single-cell imaging, and targeted optogenetics allowed us to characterize how some prefrontal neurons, and mPFC-VTA neurons in particular, drive contingency degradation behavior. nature.com/articles/s4158…
www.nature.com Prefrontal to ventral tegmental area dynamics drive contingency degradation Nature - This work provides a mechanistic understanding of how certain prefrontal circuits in the rodent brain permit flexibility to selectively stop learned behaviours through interactions with...
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Madelyn Hjort @BrainMadelyn
Happy to see my first co-first graduate school paper out! We detail a stable prefrontal code for value and value-like cue properties across days, cue sets, and recording methods.
elifesciences.org/articles/84604
elifesciences.org A stable, distributed code for cue value in mouse cortex during reward learning Individual neurons in a surprising number of frontal cortical regions encode the value of reward-predicting olfactory cues across distinct stimulus sets and experimental sessions.