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
A neural substrate of sex-dependent modulation of motivation
While there is emerging evidence of sex differences in decision-making behavior, the neural substrates that underlie such differences remain largely unknown. Here we…
Cox J et al. | Nature Neuroscience | February 16, 2023Hypothalamic 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
Hyperexcited limbic neurons represent sexual satiety and reduce mating motivation
Transient sexual experiences can have long-lasting effects on behavioral decisions, but the neural coding that accounts for this change is unclear. We found that…
ZHOU X et al. | Science | February 9, 2023Touch neurons underlying dopaminergic pleasurable touch and sexual receptivity
Pleasurable touch is paramount during social behavior, including sexual encounters. However, the identity and precise role of sensory neurons that transduce sexual touch…
Elias LJ et al. | Cell | February 2, 2023A 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