[HTML][HTML] High ventilation breathwork practices: An overview of their effects, mechanisms, and considerations for clinical applications

GW Fincham, A Kartar, MV Uthaug, B Anderson… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract High Ventilation Breathwork (HVB) refers to practices employing specific volitional
manipulation of breathing, with a long history of use to relieve various forms of psychological …

Nucleus accumbens fast-spiking interneurons in motivational and addictive behaviors

TA Schall, WJ Wright, Y Dong - Molecular psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
The development of drug addiction is associated with functional adaptations within the
reward circuitry, within which the nucleus accumbens (NAc) is anatomically positioned as an …

Sex-biased neural encoding of threat discrimination in nucleus accumbens afferents drives suppression of reward behavior

J Muir, ES Iyer, YC Tse, J Sorensen, S Wu, RS Eid… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Learning to predict threat is essential, but equally important—yet often overlooked—is
learning about the absence of threat. Here, by recording neural activity in two nucleus …

A hippocampus-accumbens tripartite neuronal motif guides appetitive memory in space

S Trouche, V Koren, NM Doig, TJ Ellender, M El-Gaby… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Retrieving and acting on memories of food-predicting environments are fundamental
processes for animal survival. Hippocampal pyramidal cells (PYRs) of the mammalian brain …

Synaptic and cellular endocannabinoid signaling mechanisms regulate stress-induced plasticity of nucleus accumbens somatostatin neurons

V Kondev, M Najeed, N Loomba… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Interneuron populations within the nucleus accumbens (NAc) orchestrate excitatory-
inhibitory balance, undergo experience-dependent plasticity, and gate-motivated behavior …

Nucleus accumbens fast-spiking interneurons constrain impulsive action

MT Pisansky, EM Lefevre, CL Retzlaff, BH Trieu… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Background The nucleus accumbens (NAc) controls multiple facets of impulsivity
but is a heterogeneous brain region with diverse microcircuitry. Prior literature links …

Selective filtering of excitatory inputs to nucleus accumbens by dopamine and serotonin

DJ Christoffel, JJ Walsh, P Hoerbelt… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The detailed mechanisms by which dopamine (DA) and serotonin (5-HT) act in the nucleus
accumbens (NAc) to influence motivated behaviors in distinct ways remain largely unknown …

CCK+ Interneurons Contribute to Thalamus-Evoked Feed-Forward Inhibition in the Prelimbic Prefrontal Cortex

A Kamalova, K Manoocheri, X Liu… - Journal of …, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
Interneurons in the medial prefrontal cortex (PFC) regulate local neural activity to influence
cognitive, motivated, and emotional behaviors. Parvalbumin-expressing (PV+) interneurons …

Ca2+-modulated photoactivatable imaging reveals neuron-astrocyte glutamatergic circuitries within the nucleus accumbens

I Serra, J Esparza, L Delgado… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Astrocytes are key elements of brain circuits that are involved in different aspects of the
neuronal physiology relevant to brain functions. Although much effort is being made to …

The nucleus accumbens in reward and aversion processing: insights and implications

Y Xu, Y Lin, M Yu, K Zhou - Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The nucleus accumbens (NAc), a central component of the brain's reward circuitry, has been
implicated in a wide range of behaviors and emotional states. Emerging evidence, primarily …