Richard Naud
@NeuroNaud
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just a researcher in neuroscience trying to say true and/or kind things bluesky: @neuronaud.bsky.social
Ottawa, Ontario
Joined November 2017
What are serotonin neurons trying to tell the brain? Our work on the question has been so much fun (@JCBeique , @JermiahYCohen, @grossmancooper ). Check out @efharkin_ 's exciting paper.
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Nature - Merging ideas from reinforcement learning theory with recent insights into the filtering properties of the dorsal raphe nucleus, a unifying perspective is found explaining why serotonin...
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RT @aeronlaffere: The work I was doing back in Oxford recently found its way to a publication in Cell. In the intervening years since I w….
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RT @katjaQheuer: 1.To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a simil….
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RT @tokushiru_: セロトニン神経の活動を説明する上で「強化子（好子）の予測に対するアプローチ」という考え方を示した論文。. 予想外の好子には、セトロニンの活動が活発になる一方で、予想外の嫌子にはセロトニンの活動は活発にならない。.いやはや。実に生物的だし、ABAで….
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Nature - Merging ideas from reinforcement learning theory with recent insights into the filtering properties of the dorsal raphe nucleus, a unifying perspective is found explaining why serotonin...
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RT @PrivacyPrivee: World renowned Canadian leaders in #AI, Professor @Yoshua_Bengio, and #QuantumComputing, Dr. Martin Laforest, shared ins….
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RT @k47h4: PhD/Postdoc position in Computational Neuroscience at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (UZH and ETH Zürich): we are investigati….
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RT @Interneuron_Dev: Our study on the impact of altered serotonin (5-HT) signalling on developing sensory cortex is now live @NatureComms….
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RT @Yoshua_Bengio: Today marks a big milestone for me. I'm launching @LawZero_, a nonprofit focusing on a new safe-by-design approach to AI….
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Out now! Sharing the old tweeprint.
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Nature Neuroscience - The authors uncover slow, facilitating inhibitory connections between serotonin neurons in the dorsal raphe, refuting autoinhibition theories. This recurrence drives...
Excited to share our updated preprint characterizing a novel, slow recurrent circuit motif in raphe!.
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RT @NicoleCRust: A theme is emerging: attempts to reduce brain functions to a few things (like an ion channel) aren’t working. A similar s….
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RT @takaki_komiyama: Our new paper is out in Science. What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are….
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Synaptic plasticity underlies learning by modifying specific synaptic inputs to reshape neural activity and behavior. However, the rules governing which synapses will undergo different forms of...
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RT @AToliasLab: After 7 years, thrilled to finally share our #MICrONS functional connectomics results!. We recorded activity from ~75K neur….
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RT @Brain_Database: Research has shown that serotonin neurons represent a "prospective code for value," conveying information about anticip….
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Nature - Merging ideas from reinforcement learning theory with recent insights into the filtering properties of the dorsal raphe nucleus, a unifying perspective is found explaining why serotonin...
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RT @NatureNeuro: Insight into place field formation in general, and specifically how the #hippocampus adaptively remaps for flexible goal-d….
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Nature Neuroscience - Through multiday imaging and acute whole-cell recordings in behaving mice, Qian, Li and Magee provide insight into place field formation in general and specifically how the...
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RT @MillerLabMIT: New results!.Working memory is read out via a theta (3-6 Hz) traveling wave sweeping across cortex. Working memory readou….
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Increasing evidence suggests that attention varies rhythmically, phase-locked to ongoing cortical oscillations. Here, we report that the phase of theta oscillations (3–6 Hz) in the frontal eye field...
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I'm always impressed when I read an article about work I was involved in that summarizes better than what I feel capable of :.
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Post by Rachel Sharp The takeaway Serotonin neurons signal a prospective code for value – a prediction of near-future rewards that explains why these neurons respond to both rewards and punishments....
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RT @IterIntellectus: 🚨IT'S HAPPENING🚨. a woman who cannot speak now speaks through her brain, in real time, with her own voice. no typing,….
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RT @QuantaMagazine: In 1956, 26-year-old Edsger Dijkstra invented a classic path-finding algorithm while out with his fiancée at a café in….
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RT @QuantaMagazine: Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel Prize “for his fundamental contributions to algebraic analysis and representatio….
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