Oxytocin, neural plasticity, and social behavior

RC Froemke, LJ Young - Annual Review of Neuroscience, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Oxytocin regulates parturition, lactation, parental nurturing, and many other social behaviors
in both sexes. The circuit mechanisms by which oxytocin modulates social behavior are …

Oxytocin, vasopressin, and social behavior: from neural circuits to clinical opportunities

N Rigney, GJ de Vries, A Petrulis, LJ Young - Endocrinology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Oxytocin and vasopressin are peptide hormones secreted from the pituitary that are well
known for their peripheral endocrine effects on childbirth/nursing and blood pressure/urine …

Wireless multilateral devices for optogenetic studies of individual and social behaviors

Y Yang, M Wu, A Vázquez-Guardado… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Advanced technologies for controlled delivery of light to targeted locations in biological
tissues are essential to neuroscience research that applies optogenetics in animal models …

A near-infrared genetically encoded calcium indicator for in vivo imaging

AA Shemetov, MV Monakhov, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
While calcium imaging has become a mainstay of modern neuroscience, the spectral
properties of current fluorescent calcium indicators limit deep-tissue imaging as well as …

Detection, processing and reinforcement of social cues: regulation by the oxytocin system

R Menon, ID Neumann - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Many social behaviours are evolutionarily conserved and are essential for the healthy
development of an individual. The neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) is crucial for the fine-tuned …

A fluorescent sensor for real-time measurement of extracellular oxytocin dynamics in the brain

D Ino, Y Tanaka, H Hibino, M Nishiyama - Nature Methods, 2022 - nature.com
Oxytocin (OT), a hypothalamic neuropeptide that acts as a neuromodulator in the brain,
orchestrates a variety of animal behaviors. However, the relationship between brain OT …

D1 receptor-expressing neurons in ventral tegmental area alleviate mouse anxiety-like behaviors via glutamatergic projection to lateral septum

Q Tong, X Cui, H Xu, X Zhang, S Hu, F Huang… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Dopamine (DA) acts as a key regulator in controlling emotion, and dysfunction of DA signal
has been implicated in the pathophysiology of some psychiatric disorders, including anxiety …

Wireless, battery-free, subdermally implantable platforms for transcranial and long-range optogenetics in freely moving animals

J Ausra, M Wu, X Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Wireless, battery-free, and fully subdermally implantable optogenetic tools are poised to
transform neurobiological research in freely moving animals. Current-generation wireless …

Ketamine rapidly enhances glutamate-evoked dendritic spinogenesis in medial prefrontal cortex through dopaminergic mechanisms

M Wu, S Minkowicz, V Dumrongprechachan… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Ketamine elicits rapid onset antidepressant effects in patients with clinical
depression through mechanisms hypothesized to involve the genesis of neocortical …

Cell-type and subcellular compartment-specific APEX2 proximity labeling reveals activity-dependent nuclear proteome dynamics in the striatum

V Dumrongprechachan, RB Salisbury, G Soto… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The vertebrate brain consists of diverse neuronal types, classified by distinct anatomy and
function, along with divergent transcriptomes and proteomes. Defining the cell-type specific …