Simultaneous recording of breathing and neural activity in awake behaving mice
This protocol provides a pipeline for simultaneous recording of breathing and neural activities in awake, behaving mice. Breathing is recorded with thermistor probes…
Liu S et al. | STAR Protocols | June 17, 2022Lateral NAc Shell D1 and D2 Neuronal Ensembles Concurrently Predict Licking Behavior and Categorize Sucrose Concentrations in a Context-dependent Manner
The palatability and concentration of sweet foods promote hedonic feeding beyond homeostatic need. Understanding how neurons respond to sweet taste is thus of great…
Coss A et al. | Neuroscience | June 15, 2022Single-cell activity and network properties of dorsal raphe nucleus serotonin neurons during emotionally salient behaviors
The serotonin system modulates a wide variety of emotional behaviors and states, including reward processing, anxiety, and social interaction. To reveal the underlying…
Paquelet GE et al. | Neuron | June 13, 2022Neural circuit pathology driven by Shank3 mutation disrupts social behaviors
Dysfunctional sociability is a core symptom in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that may arise from neural-network dysconnectivity between multiple brain regions. However…
Kim S et al. | Cell Reports | June 7, 2022A weakened recurrent circuit in the hippocampus of Rett syndrome mice disrupts long-term memory representations
Successful recall of a contextual memory requires reactivating ensembles of hippocampal cells that were allocated during memory formation. Altering the ratio of…
He L et al. | Neuron | May 18, 2022Choice-selective sequences dominate in cortical relative to thalamic inputs to NAc to support reinforcement learning
How are actions linked with subsequent outcomes to guide choices? The nucleus accumbens, which is implicated in this process, receives glutamatergic inputs from the…
Parker NF et al. | Cell Reports | May 17, 2022