A5087172499- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
- Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
- Infant Health and Development
New York University
2019-2023
NYU Langone Health
2022
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2017-2019
Harvard University
2017-2019
Neuroscience Institute
2019
Maternal care, including by non-biological parents, is important for offspring survival1-8. Oxytocin1,2,9-15, which released the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN), a critical maternal hormone. In mice, oxytocin enables neuroplasticity in auditory cortex recognition of pup distress15. However, it unclear how initial parental experience promotes signalling and cortical plasticity reliable care. Here we continuously monitored behaviour female virgin mice co-housed with an experienced...
Abstract Maternal care is profoundly important for mammalian survival, and non-biological parents can express it after experience with infants. One critical molecular signal maternal behavior oxytocin, a hormone centrally released by hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN). Oxytocin enables plasticity within the auditory cortex, necessary step responding to infant vocalizations. To determine how this change occurs during natural experience, we continuously monitored homecage of female...
Abstract Basal amygdala (BA) neurons guide associative learning via acquisition of responses to stimuli that predict salient appetitive or aversive outcomes. We examined the learning- and state-dependent dynamics BA ventral tegmental area dopamine axons innervate (VTA DA→BA ) using two-photon imaging photometry in behaving mice. did not respond arbitrary visual stimuli, but acquired predicted either rewards punishments. Most VTA were activated by both punishments, cues predicting these...