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Articles by Angela Yang
Nucleus Accumbens Cell Type- and Input-Specific Suppression of Unproductive Reward Seeking
Highlights • D1 and D2 neuron activity in the NAc is elevated during behavioral suppression • Inhibition of D1 or D2 neurons in the NAc increases unproductive reward seeking • BLA and PVT axons innervate distinct NAc subregions, yet both inputs are reinforcing • Inhibition of BLA or PVT inputs to the NAc increases unproductive reward seeking Summary The nucleus accumbens (NAc) contributes to behavioral inhibition and compulsions, but circuit mechanisms are unclear.
Cue-Evoked Dopamine Neuron Activity Helps Maintain but Does Not Encode Expected Value
Highlights • Operant choice behavior is driven by differences in expected value • Cue-evoked midbrain dopamine (DA) neuron activity reflects expected value • Disrupting cue-evoked DA interferes with the maintenance of cue-value associations • Manipulations of cue-evoked DA signaling do not lead to under- or overexpectation Summary Cue-evoked midbrain dopamine (DA) neuron activity reflects expected value, but its influence on reward assessment is unclear.
Stegner Fellows Gothataone Meong and Monica Sok read poetry and prose to a packed room
In her poetry, Stegner fellow Monica Sok considers her Cambodian heritage (courtesy of Sy Abudu). The individual: A concept of indefinite substance and blurred edges. For better or for worse, we are never quite separate from the heirlooms of our grandparents, the vernacular of our hometown, the history of our ancestors. For better or for worse, our identities are not products of our own making. On Wednesday, Feb.
Charity Auction to Celebrate Mexican Textile Traditions
EVENTS The nonprofit sale, Anonimo, in which all of the works on offer are anonymous, will present an edition dedicated to Oaxaca’s weavers. By Surface February 20, 2019 The scene was more party than art sale. Back in December, Surface partnered with nonprofit Anonimo to present the 5th edition of its roving charity auction where buyers don’t know who’s work they’re bidding on until after the hammer drops. A large, raucus crowd gathered at the Faena Forum in Miami Beach for the event.
A political vision for the Green New Deal
Over the last two years, few political ideas have captured the imagination of progressives — and attracted the ridicule of conservatives — as intensely as the Green New Deal. Touted most prominently by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Green New Deal began as an ambitious yet abstract commitment to tackling climate change through an unprecedented economic transformation focused on empowering the communities who will face the effects of climate change most severely.
Track and field runs coast to coast
This weekend is packed for Stanford’s men’s and women’s track and field. The Cardinal will be competing in the Millrose Games in New York, the Husky Classic in Seattle and the Don Kirby Invitational in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The track and field team has had stellar performances so far which bodes well for their performance this weekend.
Maggie Nelson shatters categories and defies expectations with new writing
In the hands of Maggie Nelson, the creation of art precipitates the destruction of categories. The MacArthur grant awardee and USC professor visited Stanford on January 28 as the second Lane Lecturer of the academic year. Eavan Boland, director of the Creative Writing Program, introduced Nelson as an author who “challenges orthodoxies” and “displays her own distrust of categories” in her writing.
Curators Alex Fialho and Melissa Levin on rediscovering Michael Richards’ work
“Michael Richards: Winged” opened at the Stanford Art Gallery on January 22. The exhibition explores the life and work of artist Michael Richards, who was born in Brooklyn in 1963 and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. Richards achieved renown in the New York art world during the 1990s. His work focused on questions of identity and assimilation, made extensive use of allusion and featured aviation imagery.
Building a new framework for Cardinal Conversations
Two weeks ago, the newly appointed faculty advisors of Cardinal Conversations sent a campus-wide email inviting students to provide feedback on a proposal to “reboot” last year’s inaugural speaker series. Cardinal Conversations generated considerable backlash last year, inciting protests against the invitation of Charles Murray and more general critiques of the stupefying lack of diversity among its speakers.
Open Studios highlights myriad connections between the abstract and the everyday
Each fall and winter, the Department of Art and Art History hosts Open Studios, an event featuring art created by undergraduate students. This year’s Open Studios took place on Dec. 7 in both the McMurtry building and the Stanford Art Gallery. According to event director Yuri Hobart, Open Studios featured the work of students from more than twenty-five art classes.
West refers to much more than Kanye
I believe the first time I deeply contemplated the terms east and west, I was twirling my hair aimlessly in a cramped and colorful elementary school classroom. My teacher taught us the mnemonic device Never Eat Soggy Waffles in order to embed the cardinal directions into our young, moldable minds. These simple directions, besides creating a new wave of baby names, have come to represent one of the fiercest rivalries I have ever known: the East Coast versus the West Coast.
What's Next for the Catwalk?
Fashion What's Next for the Catwalk? Strategy and events experts Jacob Peres and Eli Peer weigh in on the future of the fashion show. Interview by Tiffany Jow December 17, 2018 Like mixtapes and printed photographs, the time-honored fashion show is fading away. So what’s next for the catwalk, and how might the experience be reinvented for a contemporary audience? We asked a pair of veteran strategy and events experts (and longtime partners in crime), Jacob Peres and Eli Peer, for their two cents.
Stanford responds to month of intensifying Trump immigration policies
Following a Nov. 8 proclamation by the Trump administration — which asserted that it had the power to deny asylum to any migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally — and the Nov. 25 closing of the San Diego border crossing in response to hundreds of migrants who rushed the border, Stanford has reaffirmed its commitment to offering resources to students who may be impacted by the Trump administration’s immigration policies. The Nov.
Gish Jen challenges cultural identities at Lane Lecture Series
The aging father who wants to feel wise again. The quiet girl who challenges the athletic, wealthy, confident alpha with her calm brilliance. The family that prefers the warmth of sweaters and cuddles over their futuristic home heating system. These are the characters whose lives Gish Jen shared with her audience at Encina Hall. While she read, she smiled as the audience caught the wry humor and astute observations in her short stories and upcoming-novel excerpt.
A closer look at the Fundamental Standard’s limits
The Fundamental Standard tells us that “Students at Stanford are expected to show both within and without the University such respect for order, morality, personal honor and the rights of others as is demanded of good citizens,” and crucially that “failure to do this will be sufficient cause for removal from the University.” This short little clause has near-ubiquitous influence over how the University manages disciplinary action.
A mystical shield of sovereignty
200,000 primary school teachers and an equal amount of soldiers to ensure the teachers’ safety — this was the CIA character Peter Quinn’s solution to what he perceived as Middle Eastern ideological extremism on the popular television show Homeland. In the context of an often violent and brutal history of American intervention, one recoils at the thought of what appears to be a proposal for long-term occupation and cultural retraining.
Stanford Martial Arts Program features a variety of diverse disciplines
“You can feel it like a painting or a sculpture… It’s hard to measure. It’s beyond words.” This is how “Sifu” Kenneth Chung describes wing-chun, a Chinese martial art brought into the public view by the film “Ip Man.” Ip Man was the legendary Hong Kong pioneer of wing-chun and the master of Bruce Lee. Chung was the student of a former trainee of Ip Man.
Coordinated Reductions in Excitatory Input to the Nucleus Accumbens Underlie Food Consumption
Reward-seeking behavior is regulated by a diverse collection of inputs to the nucleus accumbens (NAc). The information encoded in each excitatory afferent to the NAc is unknown, in part because it is unclear when these pathways are active in relation to behavior. Here we compare the activity profiles of amygdala, hippocampal, and thalamic inputs to the NAc shell in mice performing a cued reward-seeking task using GCaMP-based fiber photometry.
5 Ways to Excel in China
China and the wider Asia-Pacific market present an incredible opportunity for businesses seeking to manufacture products, source suppliers, or tap into end markets and sell products to consumers. But a strategic business shift into China takes careful consideration, especially when it comes to supply chain, warehousing, and distribution decisions.
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