Parental behaviors secure the well-being of newborns and concomitantly limit negative affective states in adults, which emerge when coping with neonatal distress becomes challenging. Whether negative-affect-related neuronal circuits orchestrate parental actions is unknown. Here…
Lecca S et al. | Neuron | February 1, 2023Transient sexual experiences can have long-lasting effects on behavioral…
ZHOU X et al. | Science | February 9, 2023
Pleasurable touch is paramount during social behavior, including sexual…
Elias LJ et al. | Cell | February 2, 2023
While there is emerging evidence of sex differences in decision-making behavior…
Cox J et al. | Nature Neuroscience | February 16, 2023
The hypothalamus regulates innate social behaviors, including mating and…
Nair A et al. | Cell | January 11, 2023
Lateral hypothalamic leptin receptor neurons drive hunger-gated food-seeking and consummatory behaviours in male mice
For survival, it is crucial for eating behaviours to be sequenced through two distinct seeking and consummatory phases. Heterogeneous lateral hypothalamus (LH) neurons…
Lee YH et al. | Nature Communications | March 17, 2023
Complementary lateral hypothalamic populations resist hunger pressure to balance nutritional and social needs
Animals continuously weigh hunger and thirst against competing needs, such as social contact and mating, according to state and opportunity. Yet neuronal mechanisms of…
Petzold A et al. | Cell Metabolism | February 23, 2023
Hypothalamic neurons that mirror aggression
Social interactions require awareness and understanding of the behavior of others. Mirror neurons, cells representing an action by self and others, have been proposed to…
Yang T et al. | Cell | February 15, 2023
Disynaptic specificity of serial information flow for conditioned fear
Memory encoding and retrieval rely on specific interactions across multiple brain areas. Although connections between individual brain areas have been extensively…
Massi L et al. | Science Advances | January 20, 2023
Arginine–vasopressin-expressing neurons in the murine suprachiasmatic nucleus exhibit a circadian rhythm in network coherence in vivo
The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) is composed of functionally distinct subpopulations of GABAergic neurons which form a neural network responsible for synchronizing most…
Stowie A et al. | PNAS | January 19, 2023
Topographic representation of current and future threats in the mouse nociceptive amygdala
Adaptive behaviors arise from an integration of current sensory context and internal representations of past experiences. The central amygdala (CeA) is positioned as a…
Bowen AJ et al. | Nature Communications | January 12, 2023