A neural substrate for negative affect dictates female parental behavior
Parental behaviors secure the well-being of newborns and concomitantly limit negative affective states in adults, which emerge when coping with neonatal distress becomes…
Lecca S et al. | Neuron | February 1, 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
Persistent representation of the environment in the hippocampus
In the hippocampus, environmental changes elicit rearrangement of active neuronal ensembles or remapping of place cells. However, it remains elusive how the brain…
Kobayashi KS et al. | Cell Reports | January 11, 2023
An approximate line attractor in the hypothalamus encodes an aggressive state
The hypothalamus regulates innate social behaviors, including mating and aggression. These behaviors can be evoked by optogenetic stimulation of specific neuronal…
Nair A et al. | Cell | January 10, 2023