Jan Haaker (@janhaaker.bsky.social)

Nice work from my post-doc, showing how nicotine (in non-smoking individuals!) decreases avoidance of learned threats. Initially, we thought that nicotine would do the opposite, bc we found that nicotine diminishes discrimination when learning threats and safety. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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The effect of nicotine on threat avoidance behaviour in healthy non-smokers - Psychopharmacology Rationale Developing adaptive strategies for survival relies on distinguishing danger from safety through aversive learning mechanisms. Chronic and acute nicotine exposure have been linked to impaired... https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-025-06789-9?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20250422&utm_content=10.1007%2Fs00213-025-06789-9