Oxytocin, neural plasticity, and social behavior

RC Froemke, LJ Young - Annual Review of Neuroscience, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Oxytocin regulates parturition, lactation, parental nurturing, and many other social behaviors
in both sexes. The circuit mechanisms by which oxytocin modulates social behavior are …

The emergence and influence of internal states

SW Flavell, N Gogolla, M Lovett-Barron, M Zelikowsky - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Animal behavior is shaped by a variety of" internal states"—partially hidden variables that
profoundly shape perception, cognition, and action. The neural basis of internal states, such …

Multi-animal pose estimation, identification and tracking with DeepLabCut

J Lauer, M Zhou, S Ye, W Menegas, S Schneider… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Estimating the pose of multiple animals is a challenging computer vision problem: frequent
interactions cause occlusions and complicate the association of detected keypoints to the …

A preoptic neuronal population controls fever and appetite during sickness

JA Osterhout, V Kapoor, SW Eichhorn, E Vaughn… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
During infection, animals exhibit adaptive changes in physiology and behaviour aimed at
increasing survival. Although many causes of infection exist, they trigger similar stereotyped …

Molecular, spatial, and functional single-cell profiling of the hypothalamic preoptic region

JR Moffitt, D Bambah-Mukku, SW Eichhorn, E Vaughn… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION A mechanistic understanding of brain function requires the identification of
distinct cell types in the brain at a molecular, spatial, and functional level. The preoptic …

The Mouse Action Recognition System (MARS) software pipeline for automated analysis of social behaviors in mice

C Segalin, J Williams, T Karigo, M Hui, M Zelikowsky… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The study of naturalistic social behavior requires quantification of animals' interactions. This
is generally done through manual annotation—a highly time-consuming and tedious …

Neural circuit mechanisms of social behavior

P Chen, W Hong - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
We live in a world that is largely socially constructed, and we are constantly involved in and
fundamentally influenced by a broad array of complex social interactions. Social behaviors …

Optogenetics: 10 years of microbial opsins in neuroscience

K Deisseroth - Nature neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Over the past 10 years, the development and convergence of microbial opsin engineering,
modular genetic methods for cell-type targeting and optical strategies for guiding light …

Mapping of brain activity by automated volume analysis of immediate early genes

N Renier, EL Adams, C Kirst, Z Wu, R Azevedo, J Kohl… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Understanding how neural information is processed in physiological and pathological states
would benefit from precise detection, localization, and quantification of the activity of all …

Single-cell RNA-seq reveals hypothalamic cell diversity

R Chen, X Wu, L Jiang, Y Zhang - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
The hypothalamus is one of the most complex brain structures involved in homeostatic
regulation. Defining cell composition and identifying cell-type-specific transcriptional …