Discussing recent papers in behavioral neuroscience with a focus on circuit dissection, new behavioral assays, and model characterization

Explore the archives below.

Behavior Journal Club – 2023
CANCELLED – January 19, 2023

NOTE time: 2:30p and location: Couch 4001B

Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry)

“Distinct serotonergic pathways to the amygdala underlie separate behavioral features of anxiety” Nature Neuroscience (2022)

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

NOTE time: 2:30p

Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry)

“Molecular and cellular mechanisms of the first social relationship: A conserved role of 5-HT from mice to monkeys, upstream of oxytocin” Neuron (2023)

CANCELLED – April 13, 2023

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)

May 11, 2023

NOTE time 2:30p

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)

Behavior Journal Club – Summer/Fall 2022

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)

*NOTE date

December 15*, 2022

Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry)

“A standardized social preference protocol for measuring social deficits in mouse models of autism” Nature Protocols (2020)