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The transcriptional response of cortical neurons to concussion reveals divergent fates after injury

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a risk factor for neurodegeneration, however little is known about how this kind of injury alters …

Mor R. Alkaslasi, Eliza Y.H. Lloyd, Austin S. Gable, Hanna Silberberg, Hector E. Yarur, Valerie S. Tsai, Mira Sohn, Gennandy Margolin, Hugo A. Tejeda, Claire E. Le Pichon

Individual Differences in Volitional Social Self-Administration and Motivation in Male and Female Mice Following Social Stress

Background A key challenge in developing treatments for neuropsychiatric illness is the disconnect between preclinical models and the …

Jovana Navarrete, Kevin N. Schneider, Briana M. Smith, Nastacia L. Goodwin, Yizhe Y. Zhang, Axelle S. Salazar, Yahir E. Gonzalez, Pranav Anumolu, Ethan Gross, Valerie S. Tsai, Mitra Heshmati, Sam A. Golden

Dynorphin / kappa-opioid receptor regulation of excitation-inhibition balance toggles afferent control of prefrontal cortical circuits in a pathway-specific manner

The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) controls behavior via connections with limbic excitatory afferents that engage various inhibitory …

Hector E. Yarur, Sanne M. Casello, Valerie S. Tsai, Juan Enriquez-Traba, Rufina Kore, Huikun Wang, Miguel Arenivar, Hugo A. Tejeda

Sex differences in appetitive and reactive aggression

Aggression is an evolutionarily conserved, adaptive component of social behavior. Studies in male mice illustrate that aggression is …

Antonio v. Aubry, C. Joseph Burnett, Nastacia L. Goodwin, Long Li, Jovana Navarrete, Yizhe Zhang, Valerie Tsai, Romain Durand-De Cuttoli, Sam A. Golden, Scott J. Russo