@houseofmind

Assistant Prof @utdneuroscience. Dev beh neuroscientist + in vivo electrophysiologist. Sex, stress, development, dopamine, motherhood. madrelabutd 🦋

 NYU PhD/ Pitt PD/ UTD PI
labs.utdallas.edu/madrelab/
Joined October 2010
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Excited to share the lab's first fiber photometry paper, out now in #JNeurosci 🎉😃🐀🧠💫 This one feels particularly special: it marks a new experimental direction for the lab and reflects so much hard work, troubleshooting, learning, and persistence from an incredible team 🔬✨
SfN Journals@SfNJournalsOct 5
Does resource scarcity blunt the maternal brain’s reward system? Not exactly. New in #JNeurosci: Rat mothers with reduced nesting materials show altered VTA dopamine neuron activity around insensitive caregiving and pup separation, but not food reward. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.09…
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@hexesandspellOct 9
I am capable of obsession-level curiosity and monk-level detachment.
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Reads with Ravi
@readswithraviOct 10
I’m in love with this sentence: “A person's capacity for growth is directly linked to how much truth they can handle about themselves without running away.”
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@LovandfearOct 8
Some women don't flirt with people. They flirt with life. Extra twenty minutes at the café. Fresh flowers for no reason. Music while getting dressed. Taking the scenic way because the sky looks good. There's romance happening between her and being alive.
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD@HeyDrDukesOct 7
#BlackInNeuro at #BRAINS2026 ✨🧠 I love my community 💞
A group of 22 Black neuroscientists smiling for a photo outside on a grassy lawn in fall weather

ALT A group of 22 Black neuroscientists smiling for a photo outside on a grassy lawn in fall weather

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Jacob Coxon
@hilbertspaessSep 9
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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Neuropsychopharmacology@npp_journalSep 4
A modified rodent effort-related choice task (mERC) is a sensitive preclinical tool for studying effort-based decision-making and screening potential treatments for motivational dysfunction nature.com/articles/s41386-0…

Effort, timing and choice: a refined rodent effort choice task with excellent sensitivity to...

Neuropsychopharmacology - Effort, timing and choice: a refined rodent effort choice task with excellent sensitivity to dopamine modulators

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Congratulations to all! 🎉Looking forward to seeing you present your amazing work in NOLA! #ISDP2026
ISDP 🦋 @isdp.org.bsky.social@devpsybioAug 12
Announcing the ISDP 2026 Student/Postdoc Member Travel Award Winners for ISDP 2026 to be presented November 11-13 in New Orleans French Quarter! Early-Bird Registration Deadline is this Friday! Group hotel rates are still available. isdp.org/2026/08/12/announci… via @devpsybio
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Neuropsychopharmacology@npp_journalJul 23
Hot off the press [release] 🔥 This recently published @npp_journal paper explored the impact of synthetic cooling agents on nicotine reinforcement and mesolimbic dopamine signaling nature.com/articles/s41386-0…

Synthetic cooling agents enhance nicotine reinforcement and mesolimbic dopamine signaling

Neuropsychopharmacology - Synthetic cooling agents enhance nicotine reinforcement and mesolimbic dopamine signaling

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Questions about mentor-mentee relationships? Not too late to come join the E&D committee's panel on inclusive mentoring chaired by @_KarlyT @IBNSconnect #IBNS2026
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Accidentally rage baited my server by calling rugby American football while saying I didn't care for it. Here for one thing, and one thing only 🇺🇸⚽️🇦🇺 #banter #southafrica #worldcup
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@NatureMay 20
Motherhood induces transcriptional changes in the brain that endure beyond short-term hormonal shifts go.nature.com/4v09H3o

Becoming a mother leaves long-lasting molecular memories

Nature - In mice, motherhood induces transcriptional changes in the brain that endure beyond short-term hormonal shifts. Postpartum stress disrupts these patterns.

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Kayla Barnes-Lentz
@femalelongevityApr 9
1/ The ovary is the fastest-aging organ in the female body. And almost no one is studying why.I just sat down with @BBParis1984 (@USCLeonardDavis ), who runs one of the only labs in the world mapping ovarian aging. A few things from our conversation I can't stop thinking about:
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Neurobiology of Stress@NeurobiolStressApr 3
2025 was an incredible year for stress neurobiology research!🙌 Editors-in-Chief Larry Reagan & @MathiasVSchmidt recap cutting-edge studies published in @NeurobiolStress. Check out their editorial & consider submitting your work! 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2026… #Stress #Neuroscience
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Tara Raam@tararaam_Mar 18
Excited to share my postdoc work is out in @NatureNeuro today! We examined how the brain enables social groups to collectively coordinate their behavior in the face of environmental challenge ❄️🐭🐭🐭🐭❄️ : nature.com/articles/s41593-0…

Cortical regulation of collective social dynamics during environmental challenge

Nature Neuroscience - Raam, Li, Gu and colleagues identify neural mechanisms underlying group huddling in mice during cold exposure. They find that the prefrontal cortex encodes decisions to huddle...

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Denis Wirtz@deniswirtzMar 16
Here is our updated database of grants for early careers researchers in all fields. It goes way beyond traditional NIH and NSF funding opportunities. We list 428 types of grants. Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding…
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Kseniia Prokofeva@ks_prokofevaMar 6
Our new paper is out! We developed a behavioral task to study pup rescue under increasing adversity in female mice, in which they cross a water pool to retrieve pups or liberate trapped pups, and mapped neural correlates of adversity-overcoming rescue. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-3…
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Iñiguez Lab@IniguezLabMar 1
Check out our recent findings on the Long-term effects of Prozac exposure during adolescence on the brain 🧠 ... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Learned lots! 🧠🤓
Animal Models of Social Aging Research Network@animalsocagingFeb 27
The second of two 2026 Network-the-networks meetings concluded successfully at the University of Minnesota earlier this week. We are so grateful for all who attended and look forward to the collaborations that will no doubt result between invited network representatives!
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Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D.@FriesGabrielJan 30
Why do some individuals with serious mental illness experience earlier age-related decline? 🧬 Our new paper in @npp_journal investigates the role of premature biological aging ⌛️ in SMI and what it means for future treatments. @UTPsychiatry Check it out: nature.com/articles/s41386-0…
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