Calu Lab

flyer announcing T. Chase Francis as a new Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & UM-MIND, with a headshot of Chase, UM-MIND logo and red and orange decorative borders

We are so excited to announce that Chase Francis, PhD, will be joining us this September as an Assistant Professor in UM-MIND and the Department of Psychiatry!

The Francis Lab's goal is to develop new non-invasive strategies to treat stress and mood-related disorders. Welcome, @phdsred.bsky.social!

I am thrilled to announce that the Aery Jones lab will be starting in January 2026 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore!

A dual-pathway architecture for stress to disrupt agency and promote habit - Nature Adaptive decision-making often requires an understanding of our agency in a situation; however, chronic stress can disrupt agency and promote inflexible, habitual behaviour by turning off a brain path...

🚨📃New Wassum Lab Paper📃🚨

Out today, @jackiegio.bsky.social discovered brain pathways that support agency and habit and how chronic stress disrupts them to rob of us our agency and cause us to form rigid habits 🧵👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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ENeuro Featured work by Dr. Cassie Stapf, recent @calulabbmore.bsky.social PhD, check it out if you haven’t already! www.eneuro.org/content/12/1...