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Title: Weight-loss drug semaglutide alters reward-seeking behavior in healthy mice

Link: ift.tt/O4yaimK

#Semaglutide #Neuroscience #Psychotherapy #RewardProcessing #SpiritualityInTherapy

September 30, 2026 at 4:00 PM

Frank Ryan

@clinpsych.bsky.social

Impulsive re-post. Not yet read, but a priority to do!
#decisionmaking
#rewardprocessing #rewardsensitivity
#motivation
#vbdm
#cognitiveneuroscience

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (JoCN) @jocn.bsky.social · Nov 26

Neural and Computational Mechanisms of Motivation and Decision-making

AbstractMotivation is often thought to enhance adaptive decision-making by biasing actions toward rewards and away from punishment. Emerging evidence, however, points to a more nuanced view whereby motivation can both enhance and impair different aspects…

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December 5, 2024 at 12:42 AM

Matthias Wieser

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New paper out by my PhD student Marcelo Malbec:
bit.ly/4pIRDsC
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#intoleranceofuncertainty #rewardprocessing #feedback #rewP #

September 29, 2025 at 6:59 AM

PsyPost

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A single psilocybin dose increased optimism and engagement in rats for two weeks by enhancing reward processing and reducing loss aversion. These findings suggest psilocybin may help address depressive symptoms like withdrawal and… #psilocybin #optimism #animalstudy #mentalhealth #rewardprocessing

A single dose of psilocybin leads to long-lasting optimism boost in animal study

A single psilocybin dose increased optimism and engagement in rats for two weeks by enhancing reward processing and reducing loss aversion. These findings suggest psilocybin may help address depressive symptoms like withdrawal and pessimism.

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November 22, 2024 at 1:09 PM

Frank Ryan

@francisryan.bsky.social

Escape from threat is rewarding and memorable (at least in mice!)
#rewardprocessing

CLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · Nov 21

Nature Neuroscience

Dopamine-mediated formation of a memory module in the nucleus accumbens for goal-directed navigation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dopamine-mediated formation of a memory module in the nucleus accumbens for goal-directed navigation - Nature Neuroscience

Jung et al. show that shelter experience boosts dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens, generating a goal-location memory. Reactivating a neuronal ensemble developed from shelter experience enables...

www.nature.com

November 22, 2024 at 1:28 AM

Frank Ryan

@clinpsych.bsky.social

The #RewardProcessing topic now finalised and published! Thanks to all contributors and unwavering Frontiers support.
#rdoc #addiction #cognition #rpe #anhedonia #cbt
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www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Frontiers | Editorial: Reward processing in motivational and affective disorders, volume II

Before considering the new contributions to the Topic in more detail below, we believe it would be helpful to consider some important developments since the ...

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April 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM

The Science Matters

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Research: doi.org/10.1016/j.be... Behavioural Processes, ScienceDirect @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

#BingeEatingDisorder #Psychology #Neuroscience #BehaviouralScience #EatingBehaviour #RewardProcessing #MentalHealth #BehaviouralProcesses #Research #ScienceCommunication

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August 7, 2026 at 1:24 PM

Frank Ryan

@francisryan.bsky.social

Looks good for folk interested in #motivation #rewardprocessing #vbdm

Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · Nov 11

Did you know #RLDM2025 is coming to Dublin next June? rldm.org Abstract submission open now ☘️ 🇮🇪

RLDM | The Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making

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November 12, 2024 at 12:01 AM

RCAP Editor

@rcapeditor.bsky.social

New RCAP study explores how neighborhood disadvantage influences children's #rewardprocessing. Finding show that higher levels of neighborhood #stress were linked to blunted reward responses, especially in kids with a parental history of MDD. Read it here! link.springer.com/article/10.1...