
Affective and systems neuroscience lab investigating the neural circuits of addiction and motivation. @UMNeurosci @UMN_MDTA led by PI @jocelynmrichard
Minneapolis, MN
Joined August 2017
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🎉Kudos to MPaT student Jonathan I. Aguirre-Santiago (advisor: Jocelyn Richard) on his NIH/NIAAA F31 fellowship for his project entitled "Effects of Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons GABA-B Receptor Deletion on Cue-Evoked Relapse and Aversion-Resistant Drinking"!
Congratulations to @JAguirre_pharm on his F31 NRSA award!!! 🥳🎉💯🙌🏻
We had a fun lab lunch to welcome Dr. Meredith Bauer to the lab and to celebrate Margot Lortie and Anika Paulson being accepted to grad school! Feeling grateful to work with this fantastic group! 🎉🙌🏻🥢
Attending #SfN23? Come by our posters on Monday afternoon to hear about ventral pallidal mechanisms underlying consumption, incentive motivation and expected value encoding, as well as the influence of alcohol cues on compulsivity!

ALT Flyer with presenter photos and information. Anika Paulson (289.24 / MM22) Ventral pallidal GABAergic neurons drive consumption in a sex-dependent manner Ankit Sood (289.25 / MM23) Ventral pallidal encoding of expected outcome value evoked by Pavlovian cues Margot Lortie (289.26 / MM24) Alcohol-paired cues drive aversion-resistant drinking in Long Evans rats Bailey Newell (289.27 / MM25) Ventral pallidal GABA neurons are necessary for the invigoration of reward-seeking by cues
Our new paper on the impact of outcome devaluation on Pavlovian conditioned responses in male and female rats is out now! Congrats to first author @AnkitSood28! frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
We had a fun summer lab gathering last night! Feeling grateful to work with this great group of scientists and for the slightly cooling weather!
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nice results supporting role for VP-to-VTA projections in reinforcement 😍 from @jocelynmrichard lab
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Ventral pallidum projections to the ventral tegmental area reinforce but do not invigorate reward-seeking behavior biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
New lab preprint on ventral pallidal projections to the ventral tegmental area just dropped!
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Happy new year! Start 2023 out right by checking out our new preprint on work led by @A_K_Scott examining encoding of cue-elicited reward seeking by ventral pallidal GABA neurons! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Good morning #SfN22 - stop by PP7 this morning to hear from @AnkitSood28 about his work on ventral pallidal encoding of expected value!
This afternoon Tony Joseph is presenting on the impact of ethanol vapor exposure on prelimbic c-fos in response to ethanol cues! Come say hi at OO17!
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Happy #PsychopharmPhriday! Today we feature @jocelynmrichard from @UMNeurosci, who discusses #alcohol #addiction, withdrawal, individual and sex differences, and more! @RichardLab_
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Check out our new paper on how stressors that reinstate instrumental alcohol seeking impact Pavlovian responses to alcohol cues!
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The preprint and thread describing the main findings can be found here:
Happy new year! Check out our new preprint on the impact of alcohol vapor inhalation on cue-elicited alcohol seeking and aversion-resistant drinking! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Our paper on the impact of alcohol vapor exposure on reactivity to alcohol cues is out now in Psychopharmacology! rdcu.be/cSsPd
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Check out our new preprint on stress reinstatement of alcohol seeking in a Pavlovian setting! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…










