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 …

Hippocampal sequences span experience relative to rewards

M Sosa, MH Plitt, LM Giocomo - bioRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hippocampal place cells fire in sequences that span spatial environments and non-spatial
modalities, suggesting that hippocampal activity can anchor to the most behaviorally salient …

A septal-ventral tegmental area circuit drives exploratory behavior

P Mocellin, O Barnstedt, K Luxem, H Kaneko, S Vieweg… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
To survive, animals need to balance their exploratory drive with their need for safety.
Subcortical circuits play an important role in initiating and modulating movement based on …

[HTML][HTML] Slow and fast cortical cholinergic arousal is reduced in a mouse model of focal seizures with impaired consciousness

LA Sieu, S Singla, J Liu, X Zheng, A Sharafeldin… - Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
Patients with focal temporal lobe seizures often experience loss of consciousness
associated with cortical slow waves, like those in deep sleep. Previous work in rat models …

Flexible behavioral adjustment to frustrative nonreward in anticipatory behavior, but not in consummatory behavior, requires the dorsal hippocampus

C Hagen, M Hoxha, S Chitale, AO White… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The hippocampus (HC) is recognized for its pivotal role in memory‐related plasticity and
facilitating adaptive behavioral responses to reward shifts. However, the nature of its …

Predictive goal coding by somatostatin-expressing interneurons is rapidly updated by current experience

M Bartos, M Yuan, A Cazala, JF Sauer - 2024 - researchsquare.com
To select appropriate behaviour, individuals need to rely on the encoding of relevant
features within their environment in the context of current and past experiences. This …

Struktura neurální aktivity v hipokampu během učení

M Martin - 2024 - dspace.cvut.cz
V této práci jsme zkoumali neuronální mechanismy kódování prostorových informací v
hippocampu myší vystaveným apetitivnímu a averzivnímu podnětu. Naše zjištění potvrzují …