Kate Wassum 🧠👩🏼‍🔬 Profile picture
neuroscientist, UCLA. motivation, habits, decision making, and addiction. mom. 🍷 snob. 🌱 lover. she/her. tweets are my own. RT≠Endorse.
Nov 17, 2023 10 tweets 2 min read
Since graduate school applications are due soon, I'm reposting my tips for a strong personal statement.
OG thread and new tips below👇 Be active in your narrative. Things didn't just happen to you, you made choices to engage with opportunities and experiences. Own and show your agency in your narrative.
Apr 8, 2019 23 tweets 8 min read
***New paper out from our lab***

@MelissaMalvaez discovered a critical brain circuit that regulates reward learning & decision making

Here is what she found. Thread 👇

Free full text: rdcu.be/bvn4u

nature.com/articles/s4159… When making a decision, like what to have for lunch, you have consider your options 🌮🍔🍕
Nov 22, 2018 14 tweets 3 min read
Graduate school applications are due soon. So here are my tips for how to craft a strong statement for a neuroscience PhD program
thread👇 Explain what got you into neuroscience.
Keep this brief. IMO, you shouldn't feel obligated to discuss some traumatic life experience or make some elaborate story about why you're into neuroscience. The 🧠 is inherently cool.
Aug 14, 2018 14 tweets 4 min read
New paper out from our lab:
I asked @MelissaMalvaez to come up with a simple side project…
...she ended up discovering a molecular director of habit.
Here’s what she found. Thread👇
biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-…

Free for 50 days:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1XYUd1S07YLQ5 When you do something repeatedly and it always leads to a positive outcome, eventually you don’t need to think about it anymore, you just do it when the circumstance arises. This is a habit.