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Concerted actions of distinct serotonin neurons orchestrate female pup care behavior

In many mammalian species, female behavior towards infant conspecifics changes across reproductive stages. Sexually naïve females …

Alina S. Xiao, Cherry C. Chen, Patricia Horvath, Valerie Tsai, Vibania M. Cardenas, Dan Biderman, Fei Deng, Yulong Li, Scott W. Linderman, Catherine Dulac, Liqun Luo

Hippocampal input-driven plasticity of prefrontal interneurons reveals a circuit basis for impaired spatial working memory

Dynamic functional connectivity between the ventral hippocampus (vHPC) and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is essential for spatial …

Shana E. Silverstein, Thomas T. Clarity, Meena S. Deshpande, Erik Vaughan, Shoshana Novik, Hector E. Yarur, Shiliang Zhang, Valerie S. Tsai, Rong Ye, Rachel M. Mikofsky, Madeline Hsiang, Avery Bauman, Gabriel Loewinger, Francisco Pereira, Marisela Morales, Vikaas S. Sohal, Hugo A. Tejeda, Joshua A. Gordon, David A. Kupferschmidt

Dissociable control of motivation and reinforcement by distinct ventral striatal dopamine receptors

Dopamine release in striatal circuits, including the nucleus accumbens (NAc), tracks separable features of reward such as motivation …

Juan Enriquez-Traba, Hector E. Yarur-Castillo, Rodolfo J. Flores, Tenley Weil, Snehashis Roy, Ted B. Usdin, Christina T. LaGamma, Miguel Arenivar, Huikun Wang, Valerie S. Tsai, Amy E. Moritz, David R. Sibley, Rosario Moratalla, Zachary Z. Freyberg, Hugo A. Tejeda