The prefrontal cortex (PFC) enables a staggering variety of complex behaviors, such as
planning actions, solving problems, and adapting to new situations according to external …

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 …

Fear and anxiety-based disorders are highly debilitating and among the most prevalent
psychiatric disorders. These disorders are associated with abnormal network oscillations in …

Innate behaviors meet multiple needs adaptively and in a serial order, suggesting the
existence of a hitherto elusive brain dynamics that brings together representations of …

Perception of fear induced by others in danger elicits complex vicarious fear responses and
behavioral outputs. In rodents, observing a conspecific receive aversive stimuli leads to …

Brains can gracefully weed out irrelevant stimuli to guide behavior. This feat is believed to
rely on a progressive selection of task-relevant stimuli across the cortical hierarchy, but the …

Quantitative descriptions of animal behavior are essential to study the neural substrates of
cognitive and emotional processes. Analyses of naturalistic behaviors are often performed …

The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been proposed to link sensory inputs and
behavioral outputs to mediate the execution of learned behaviors. However, how such a link …

Animals can learn about sources of danger while minimizing their own risk by observing
how others respond to threats. However, the distinct neural mechanisms by which threats …

Maternal behavior is a highly motivated and adaptive social behavior. Its frequency and
pattern change across the postpartum period in response to the changing characteristics of …