Environmentally appropriate social behavior is critical for survival across the lifespan. To
support this flexible behavior, the brain must rapidly perform numerous computations taking …

Whilst reward pathologies are major and common in stress-related neuropsychiatric
disorders, their neurobiology and treatment are poorly understood. Imaging studies in …

Reduced reward interest/learning and reward-to-effort valuation are distinct, common
symptoms in neuropsychiatric disorders for which chronic stress is a major aetiological …

Abstract Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) represents a key area of neuromodulation that has
gained wide adoption for the treatment of neurological and experimental testing for …

Social stressors negatively impact social function, and this is mediated by the amygdala
across species. Social defeat stress is an ethologically relevant social stressor in adult male …

Reward processing dysfunctions eg, anhedonia, apathy, are common in stress-related
neuropsychiatric disorders including depression and schizophrenia, and there are currently …

Social encounters are inherently multisensory events, yet how and where social cues of
distinct sensory modalities merge and interact in the brain is poorly understood. When their …

The amygdala is divided into functional subnuclei which have been challenging to
investigate due to functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) limitations in mapping small …

In the last decade, activity-dependent strategies for labelling multiple immediate early gene
(IEG) ensembles in mice have generated unprecedented insight into the mechanisms of …

Basal amygdala (BA) neurons projecting to nucleus accumbens (NAc) core/shell are
primarily glutamatergic and are integral to the circuitry of emotional processing. Several …