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
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
Noise correlations in neural ensemble activity limit the accuracy of hippocampal spatial representations
Neurons in the CA1 area of the mouse hippocampus encode the position of the animal in an environment. However, given the variability in individual neurons responses, the…
Hazon O et al. | Nature Communications | July 25, 2022
Dopamine subsystems that track internal states
Food and water are rewarding in part because they satisfy our internal needs. Dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) are activated by gustatory rewards…
Grove JCR et al. | Nature | July 13, 2022
Nested calcium dynamics support daily cell unity and diversity in the suprachiasmatic nuclei of free-behaving mice
The suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the anterior hypothalamus host the circadian pacemaker that synchronizes mammalian rhythms with the day-night cycle. SCN neurons are…
Hussein LEC et al. | PNAS Nexus | July 11, 2022