Adaptive reward-related decision making requires accurate prospective consideration of the
specific outcome of each option and its current desirability. These mental simulations are …

Amygdaloid circuits are involved in a variety of emotional and motivation-related behaviors
and are impacted by stress. The amygdala expresses several neuromodulatory systems …

Behavioral adaptation to potential threats requires both a global representation of danger to
prepare the organism to react in a timely manner but also the identification of specific …

Extinction memory retrieval is influenced by spatial contextual information that determines
responding to conditioned stimuli (CS). However, it is poorly understood whether contextual …

Cadmium is highly toxic and present in the environment and can be accumulated among
various levels of the food chain. Both humans and animals are at risk from toxicity …

The basolateral amygdala (BLA) contains discrete neuronal circuits that integrate positive or
negative emotional information and drive the appropriate innate and learned behaviors …

To make adaptive decisions, we build an internal model of the associative relationships in
an environment and use it to make predictions and inferences about specific available …

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Dopamine is part of the reward system triggering the social decision-making network in the
brain. It has hence great potential importance in the regulation of social behaviour, but its …

Cranial window surgery allows for the imaging of brain tissue in live mice with the use of
multiphoton or other intravital imaging techniques. However, when performing any …