Daniel Cardozo Pinto
@dcardozopinto
Neuroscientist & Harvard Junior Fellow | Stanford PhD '23, Malenka lab | UC Berkeley BA '17, Lammel lab
My paper is out!! 🎉 "Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin", @Nature Here, we show that dopamine and serotonin signals form a gas-brake system for reward in the mammalian brain 🧠 THREAD ⬇️ 1/n
If anyone here is using Doric's new FluoPulse system for fluorescence lifetime photometry, can you please get in touch? Would love to hear about your experience with the product. Thanks!
Daniel Cardozo Pinto: Decoding the Neural Circuitry of Reward Learning @dcardozopinto @NeirEshel @harvardbrainsci @Harvard @RachelleGaudet @VMurthyLab @DulacLab @mlgredler @MicrobiomeTcell @JeeyunC @rnett42 mcb.harvard.edu/department/new…
HUGE NEWS... I WROTE A BOOK!!! 🎉📖 I can’t believe I finally get to share this with you. I poured everything I had into this project, and I’m so proud of how it turned out. It’s out October 14th, and available for pre-order now. But, what’s it all about?👇
Thrilled to share that I've been elected to the Harvard Society of Fellows! I will collaborate with Nao Uchida on a new direction studying neural mechanisms of addiction. It's such a privilege to pursue curiosity driven science in this environment - very excited and so grateful
MCB’s Daniel Cardozo Pinto and Wendy Valencia Montoya Named 2025 Harvard Junior Fellows @RachelleGaudet @dcardozopinto @rnett42 @NBellono @MarmolJosefina @NaomiPierceMCZ @HarvardGSAS @Harvard @HarvardOEB mcb.harvard.edu/department/new…
Thanks to @avaskham at @_TheTransmitter for this coverage of our recent work!
Mice learn best when the opponent opposing forces of dopamine and serotonin work together, a new study shows, helping to resolve long-standing questions about the neuromodulators’ relationship. By @avaskham thetransmitter.org/learning/dopam…
Grateful for this spotlight from @PsyPost News, check out their coverage of our recent @Nature paper below! 🧠
Scientists reveal dopamine and serotonin’s opposing roles in fascinating neuroscience breakthrough psypost.org/scientists-rev…
WEEK #48 Paper of the week by @dcardozopinto in Dr Malenka‘s lab : nature.com/articles/s4158… LP of the week : Motorama / Alps : open.spotify.com/album/0vHOjAoA… Bonus video : I was late posting because I was chilling with dolphins. Hope y'all had a beautiful Thxgvg week end.
Thanks to Nick Weiler @StanfordBrain for the very nice write up on our work! neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/dopamine-…
In sum: 🏁 We uncover a long hypothesized opponent relationship between dopamine & serotonin, and we show that this opponency controls reward and reinforcement. LINK: nature.com/articles/s4158… 9/n
Dopamine and serotonin work together in opposite ways, like the accelerator and the brakes on a car, to help the brain learn from rewards, according to new Wu Tsai Neuro-funded research by Rob Malenka and Daniel Cardozo Pinto (@dcardozopinto). Learn more: neuroscience.stanford.edu/ne