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Neuroscience PhD Candidate @bagotlab | @cc_columbia ‘20 l Dancer l 🇨🇦🇨🇳🇺🇸🇭🇰

Montréal, Québec
Joined February 2021
Photo by Serena Wu (@swubat)
Tomorrow, Sept 19 | 3:30 PM, at #CCNP2025 (ccnp.ca) in Montreal, I’ll be co-chairing the symposium “Psychedelics & Psychiatry” 🍄🧠 with @swubat. We’ll explore how psychedelics reshape brain circuits & behavior, bridging preclinical & clinical perspectives.
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Serena Wu retweeted
Excited to share a new preprint from the lab! Here we unpack the apparent redundancy in how mPFC and vHip inputs to the NAc shell integrate reward. We identify a novel motif of reward integration that is common to both inputs but used differently biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Serena Wu retweeted
The Bagot lab is at #FENS2022 !!! TODAY come see @esiyer (S01-181) present about the role of nucleus accumbens afferents in reward integration and TUESDAY @jessie_muir (S06-027) will follow up with their role in threat encoding!
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Humbling article by Benedict Carey at the @nytimes who has written about mental health research for 20 years. As an ECR, I sometimes see a misalignment in public health goals & academic incentive structures. How can we do better?
“Almost every measure of our collective mental health — rates of suicide, anxiety, depression, addiction deaths, psychiatric prescription use — went the wrong direction...What happened? After 20 years covering the field....” nytimes.com/2021/04/01/healt…
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Harvard counseling and mental health resources "Anti-Asian Racism Resources" page starting off strong with "You may wish that you weren't Asian, but remember that your ancestors likely went through similar or even worse incidents..."
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With deep respect for those who came before me, gratitude for those who have supported me & great concern for the generation of trans youth we must all protect, please join me and decry anti-trans legislation, hate & discrimination in all its forms.
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