A5046034448- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Infant Health and Development
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research
- Fibroblast Growth Factor Research
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
- Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
- Circadian rhythm and melatonin
University of Connecticut
2024
Boston University
2010-2020
Boston College
2016-2019
Hartford Financial Services (United States)
2010
Trinity College
2010
The neuropeptides vasopressin (AVP) and oxytocin (OT) have been implicated in the regulation of numerous social behaviors adult juvenile animals. AVP OT signaling predominantly occur within a circuit interconnected brain regions known collectively as "social behavior neural network" (SBNN). Importantly, SBNN has shown to differentially regulate diverse behaviors, depending on age and/or sex animal. We hypothesized that variation display these is due part differences synthesis SBNN. However,...
Attraction to opposite-sex pheromones during rodent courtship involves a pathway that includes inputs the medial amygdala (Me) from main and accessory olfactory bulbs, projections Me nuclei in hypothalamus control reproduction. However, consideration of circuitry attributes hedonic properties odors has been lacking. The tubercle (mOT) implicated reinforcing effects natural stimuli drugs abuse. We performed tract-tracing study wherein estrous female mice had received injections retrograde...
Brown ghost knife fish (Apteronotus leptorhynchus) can briefly increase their electric organ discharge (EOD) frequency to produce electrocommunication signals termed chirps. The chirp rate increases when are presented with conspecific or high-frequency (700-1100 Hz) that mimic fish. We examined whether A. leptorhynchus also chirps in response artificial low-frequency and heterospecific whose EOD contains components. Fish chirped at rates above background (10-300 sine-wave stimuli; 30 150 Hz,...
The fifteen canonical paracrine fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) are organized in five subfamilies that interact with four FGF-receptors (FGFRs) and heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG) co-receptors. Many of these FGFs expressed CNS regions where oligodendrocyte (OL) progenitors originate, migrate or differentiate. FGF2 (basic FGF) is considered a prototype FGF the information about effects signaling on OL-lineage cells has evolved largely from study FGF2. However, other ((FGF1 (FGF1,-2),...
The accessory olfactory system controls social and sexual behavior. In the mouse bulb, first central stage of information processing along pathway, projection neurons (mitral cells) display infra-slow oscillatory discharge with remarkable periodicity. physiological mechanisms that underlie this default output state, however, remain controversial. Moreover, whether such rhythmic activity patterns exist in awake behaving mice reflects functional organization bulb circuitry unclear. Here, we...