Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), characterized by abnormally persistent and
distressing memories, is a chronic debilitating condition in need of new treatment options …

Abstract ARNSTEN, AFT, MKP Joyce and AC Roberts. The Aversive Lens: Stress effects on
the prefrontal-cingulate cortical pathways that regulate emotion. NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV …

There is disagreement on how best to define and investigate fear. Nature Neuroscience
asked Dean Mobbs to lead experts from the fields of human and animal affective …

Stress can cause overconsumption of palatable high caloric food. Despite the important role
of stress eating in obesity and (binge) eating disorders, its underlying neural mechanisms …

Accumulating evidence shows that stressful events evoke molecular alterations in the brain,
considered a pathology in major depressive disorder (MDD). However, the abnormalities of …

The ability to extinguish fear memories when threats are no longer present is critical for
adaptive behavior. Fear extinction represents a new learning process that eventually leads …

Neuromodulators transform animal behaviors. Recent research has demonstrated the
importance of both sustained and transient change in neuromodulators, likely due to tonic …

The property of mixed selectivity has been discussed at a computational level and offers a
strategy to maximize computational power by adding versatility to the functional role of each …

Dopamine (DBA) as an important biomarker, plays a crucial role in disease diagnosis. In this
study, we have developed a fast and simple aptamer-based fluorescence strategy which …

Efficient foraging requires an ability to coordinate discrete reward-seeking and reward-
retrieval behaviors. We used pathway-specific chemogenetic inhibition to investigate how …