A central alarm system that gates multi-sensory innate threat cues to the amygdala
Perception of threats is essential for survival. Previous findings suggest that parallel pathways independently relay innate threat signals from different sensory…
Kang SJ et al. | Cell Reports | August 16, 2022Dose-dependent suppression of hippocampal contextual memory formation, place cells, and spatial engrams by the NMDAR antagonist (R)-CPP
We recently reported that the competitive NMDAR antagonist (R,S)-3-(2-carboxypiperazin-4-yl)-propyl-1-phosphonic acid (CPP) does not suppress NMDAR-mediated field EPSPs…
Zhu M et al. | Neuropharmacology | August 14, 2022Control of non-REM sleep by ventrolateral medulla glutamatergic neurons projecting to the preoptic area
Understanding the neural mechanisms underlying sleep state transitions is a fundamental goal of neurobiology and important for the development of new treatments for…
Teng S et al. | Nature Communications | August 12, 2022A molecularly defined D1 medium spiny neuron subtype negatively regulates cocaine addiction
The striatum plays a critical role in regulating addiction-related behaviors. The conventional dichotomy model suggests that striatal D1/D2 medium …
Zhao Z et al. | Science Advances | August 12, 2022Multiple types of navigational information are independently encoded in the population activities of the dentate gyrus neurons
The dentate gyrus (DG) plays critical roles in cognitive functions, such as learning, memory, and spatial coding, and its dysfunction is implicated in various…
Tomoyuki Murano et al. | PNAS | August 5, 2022Transformations of neural representations in a social behavioral network
Mating and aggression are innate social behaviours that are controlled by subcortical circuits in the extended amygdala and hypothalamus. The bed nucleus of the stria…
Yang B et al. | Nature | August 3, 2022