Distinct circuits in rat central amygdala for defensive behaviors evoked by socially signaled imminent versus remote danger

K Andraka, K Kondrakiewicz, K Rojek-Sito… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Animals display a rich repertoire of defensive responses adequate to the threat proximity. In
social species, these reactions can be additionally influenced by the behavior of fearful …

Alternative frameworks for advancing the study of eating disorders

SA Stern, CM Bulik - Trends in neurosciences, 2020 - cell.com
Eating disorders are life-interrupting psychiatric conditions with high morbidity and mortality,
yet the basic mechanisms underlying these conditions are understudied compared with …

A limbic circuit selectively links active escape to food suppression

EP Azevedo, B Tan, LE Pomeranz, V Ivan, R Fetcho… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Stress has pleiotropic physiologic effects, but the neural circuits linking stress to these
responses are not well understood. Here, we describe a novel population of lateral septum …

Activity of insula to basolateral amygdala projecting neurons is necessary and sufficient for taste valence representation

H Kayyal, A Yiannakas, SK Chandran… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
Conditioned taste aversion (CTA) is an associative learning paradigm, wherein consumption
of an appetitive tastant (eg, saccharin) is paired to the administration of a malaise-inducing …

Neural circuit mechanism underlying the feeding controlled by insula-central amygdala pathway

C Zhang-Molina, MB Schmit, H Cai - IScience, 2020 - cell.com
The Central nucleus of amygdala (CeA) contains distinct populations of neurons that play
opposing roles in feeding. The circuit mechanism of how CeA neurons process information …

Introduction of [2, 2'-Bipyridine]-1, 1'-Diium Perchlorate as a Novel and Highly Efficient Dicationic Brönsted Acidic Organic Salt for the Synthesis of 3-Methyl-4 …

G Aleaba, S Khedmatgozar Asadi… - Polycyclic Aromatic …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In this work, a novel pyridinium-based dicationic organic salt,[H2-BiPyr][ClO4] 2, was easily
prepared and characterized by FT-IR and NMR spectroscopy. After characterization, it was …

A limbic circuit selectively linking active escape to food suppression

EP Azevedo, B Tan, LE Pomeranz, V Ivan, RN Fetcho… - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Stress and anxiety are precipitating factors for eating disorders, but the neural basis linking
stress to alterations in feeding is not well understood. Here we describe a novel population …