Discussing recent papers in behavioral neuroscience with a focus on circuit dissection, new behavioral assays, and model characterization
Explore the archives below.
February 6, 2024
Katie McCullough (Maloney lab, WashU Psychiatry)
“Age-related vulnerability of pattern separation in C57BL/6J mice” Neurobiology of Aging (2018)
March 5, 2024
Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry)
“Regulation of social interaction in mice by a frontostriatal circuit modulated by established hierarchical relationships” Nature Communications (2023)
April 2, 2024
Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry)
“A Hypothalamic Circuit Underlying the Dynamic Control of Social Homeostasis” bioRxiv (2023)
May 7, 2024
Andrew Speidell (Yano lab, WashU Neurosurgery)
“Neuronal correlates of strategic cooperation in monkeys” Nature Neuroscience (2021)
February 16, 2023
Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry)
“Influence of diurnal phase on behavioral tests of sensorimotor performance, anxiety, learning and memory in mice” Scientific Reports (2022)
March 16, 2023
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Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry)
May 11, 2023
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Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry)
“Dissociation of impulsivity and aggression in mice deficient for the ADHD risk gene Adgrl3: Evidence for dopamine transporter dysregulation” Neuropharmacology (2019)
June 8, 2023
Katherine McCullough (Dougherty lab, WashU Genetics)
“Neurobehavioral sex-related differences in Nf1+/− mice: female show a “camouflaging”-type behavior” Biology of Sex Differences (2023)
July 6, 2023
Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry), Katherine McCullough (Dougherty lab, WashU Genetics)
Topic: IBNS recap
August 31, 2023
Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry)
“Cortical ensembles orchestrate social competition through hypothalamic outputs” Nature (2022)
November 7, 2023
Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry)
“Impaired cliff avoidance reaction in dopamine transporter knockout mice” Psychopharmacology (2013)
December 5, 2023
Josh Dearborn (WashU Medicine)
“Behavioral tests assessing neuropsychiatric phenotypes in adolescent mice reveal strain- and sex-specific effects” Scientific Reports (2020)
July 8, 2022
Simona Sarafinovska (Dougherty lab, WashU Genetics)
“Social touch-like tactile stimulation activates a tachykinin 1-oxytocin pathway to promote social interactions” Neuron (2022)
August 5, 2022
Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry)
“Adolescent sleep shapes social novelty preference in mice” Nature Neuroscience (2022)
September 2, 2022
Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry)
“Effects of sex and gonadectomy on social investigation and social recognition in mice” BMC Neuroscience (2015)
September 29, 2022
Katherine McCullough (Dougherty lab, WashU Genetics)
“Responses and functions of dopamine in nucleus accumbens core during social behaviors“ Cell Reports (2022)
October 27, 2022
Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry)
“Behaviorally penetrant, anomalous dopamine efflux exposes sex and circuit dependent regulation of dopamine transporters” Molecular Psychiatry (2022)
November 17*, 2022
Katie McCullough (Dougherty lab, WashU Genetics)
“Social Deficits and Cerebellar Degeneration in Purkinje Cell Scn8a Knockout Mice” Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience (2022)
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December 15*, 2022
Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry)
“A standardized social preference protocol for measuring social deficits in mouse models of autism” Nature Protocols (2020)