[HTML][HTML] Mindfulness and behavior change

Z Schuman-Olivier, M Trombka, DA Lovas… - Harvard review of …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Initiating and maintaining behavior change is key to the prevention and treatment of most
preventable chronic medical and psychiatric illnesses. The cultivation of mindfulness …

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 …

Decoding molecular and cellular heterogeneity of mouse nucleus accumbens

R Chen, TR Blosser, MN Djekidel, J Hao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The nucleus accumbens (NAc) plays an important role in regulating multiple behaviors, and
its dysfunction has been linked to many neural disorders. However, the molecular, cellular …

Topographic organization of the human subcortex unveiled with functional connectivity gradients

Y Tian, DS Margulies, M Breakspear, A Zalesky - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Brain atlases are fundamental to understanding the topographic organization of the human
brain, yet many contemporary human atlases cover only the cerebral cortex, leaving the …

[HTML][HTML] Cellular circuits in the brain and their modulation in acute and chronic pain

R Kuner, T Kuner - Physiological reviews, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Chronic, pathological pain remains a global health problem and a challenge to basic and
clinical sciences. A major obstacle to preventing, treating, or reverting chronic pain has been …

State and rate-of-change encoding in parallel mesoaccumbal dopamine pathways

JW de Jong, Y Liang, JPH Verharen, KM Fraser… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The nervous system uses fast-and slow-adapting sensory detectors in parallel to enable
neuronal representations of external states and their temporal dynamics. It is unknown …

Ventral tegmental area GABAergic inhibition of cholinergic interneurons in the ventral nucleus accumbens shell promotes reward reinforcement

R Al-Hasani, R Gowrishankar, GP Schmitz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The long-range GABAergic input from the ventral tegmental area (VTA) to the nucleus
accumbens (NAc) is relatively understudied, and therefore its role in reward processing has …

An endogenous opioid circuit determines state-dependent reward consumption

DC Castro, CS Oswell, ET Zhang, CE Pedersen… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract µ-Opioid peptide receptor (MOPR) stimulation alters respiration, analgesia and
reward behaviour, and can induce substance abuse and overdose,–. Despite its evident …

Modulation of 5-HT release by dynorphin mediates social deficits during opioid withdrawal

MB Pomrenze, DFC Pinto, PA Neumann, P Llorach… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Social isolation during opioid withdrawal is a major contributor to the current opioid
addiction crisis. We find that sociability deficits during protracted opioid withdrawal in mice …

A dopamine-induced gene expression signature regulates neuronal function and cocaine response

KE Savell, JJ Tuscher, ME Zipperly, CG Duke… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Drugs of abuse elevate dopamine levels in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and alter
transcriptional programs believed to promote long-lasting synaptic and behavioral …