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 8, 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 10, 2023
Dose-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, 2022
Control 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, 2022
A 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, 2022
Multiple 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, 2022
Transformations 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
Ca2+ imaging of self and other in medial prefrontal cortex during social dominance interactions in a tube test
The study of social dominance interactions between animals offers a window onto the decision-making involved in establishing dominance hierarchies and an opportunity to…
Nuria Garcia-Font et al. | PNAS | July 26, 2022