Organization of neural circuits underlying social behavior: A consideration of the medial amygdala

A novel telencephalon‐opto‐hypothalamic morphogenetic domain coexpressing Foxg1 and Otp produces most of the glutamatergic neurons of the medial extended amygdala

(2021) Lorena Morales et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Effect of relative social rank within a social hierarchy on neural activation in response to familiar or unfamiliar social signals

(2021) Won Lee et al.   Scientific Reports

Oxytocin-Sensitive Neurons in Prefrontal Cortex Gate Social Recognition Memory

(2020) Tara Raam   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The pheromone darcin drives a circuit for innate and reinforced behaviours

(2020) Ebru Demir et al.   NATURE

Potentiation of divergent medial amygdala pathways drives experience-dependent aggression escalation

(2020) Jacob Nordman et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Hierarchical Representations of Aggression in a Hypothalamic-Midbrain Circuit

(2020) Annegret L. Falkner et al.   NEURON

The Temporal Association Cortex Plays a Key Role in Auditory-Driven Maternal Plasticity

(2020) Gen-ichi Tasaka et al.   NEURON

VMHvl-Projecting Vglut1+ Neurons in the Posterior Amygdala Gate Territorial Aggression

(2020) Xi Zha et al.   Cell Reports

A Neuro-hormonal Circuit for Paternal Behavior Controlled by a Hypothalamic Network Oscillation

(2020) Stefanos Stagkourakis et al.   CELL

Posterior amygdala regulates sexual and aggressive behaviors in male mice

(2020) Takashi Yamaguchi et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Cortical Representations of Conspecific Sex Shape Social Behavior

(2020) Lyle Kingsbury et al.   NEURON

A Multi-Brain Framework for Social Interaction

(2020) Lyle Kingsbury et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Sex Differences in Biophysical Signatures across Molecularly Defined Medial Amygdala Neuronal Subpopulations

(2020) Heidi Y. Matos et al.   eNeuro

Traumatic Stress Induces Prolonged Aggression Increase through Synaptic Potentiation in the Medial Amygdala Circuits

(2020) Jacob Nordman et al.   eNeuro

Innate and plastic mechanisms for maternal behaviour in auditory cortex

(2020) Jennifer K. Schiavo et al.   NATURE

Hippocampal CA2 sharp-wave ripples reactivate and promote social memory

(2020) Azahara Oliva et al.   NATURE

Experience-dependent plasticity in an innate social behavior is mediated by hypothalamic LTP

(2020) Stefanos Stagkourakis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An approach for long-term, multi-probe Neuropixels recordings in unrestrained rats

(2020) Thomas Zhihao Luo et al.   eLife

The Dorsal Raphe Regulates the Duration of Attack through the Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex and Medial Amygdala

(2020) Jacob Nordman et al.   eNeuro

Nucleus accumbens Drd1-expressing neurons control aggression self-administration and aggression seeking in mice

(2019) Sam A. Golden et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Behavioral Paradigms to Probe Individual Mouse Differences in Value-Based Decision Making

(2019) Opeyemi O. Alabi et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Central role of G protein Gαi2 and Gαi2+ vomeronasal neurons in balancing territorial and infant-directed aggression of male mice

(2019) Anne-Charlotte Trouillet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Divergent medial amygdala projections regulate approach–avoidance conflict behavior

(2019) Samara M. Miller et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Animal models of (or for) aggression reward, addiction, and relapse: behavior and circuits

(2019) Sam A. Golden et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Oxytocin receptors are expressed by glutamatergic prefrontal cortical neurons that selectively modulate social recognition

(2019) Yalun Tan et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Sexually Dimorphic Control of Parenting Behavior by the Medial Amygdala

(2019) Patrick B. Chen et al.   CELL

Limbic Neurons Shape Sex Recognition and Social Behavior in Sexually Naive Males

(2019) Daniel W. Bayless et al.   CELL

High-density multi-fiber photometry for studying large-scale brain circuit dynamics

(2019) Yaroslav Sych et al.   NATURE METHODS

Spontaneous behaviors drive multidimensional, brainwide activity

(2019) Carsen Stringer et al.   SCIENCE

Correlated Neural Activity and Encoding of Behavior across Brains of Socially Interacting Animals

(2019) Lyle Kingsbury et al.   CELL

Parvalbumin interneuron in the ventral hippocampus functions as a discriminator in social memory

(2019) Xiaofei Deng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Neuronal Responses to Conspecifics in the Ventral CA1

(2019) Rajnish P. Rao et al.   Cell Reports

Distributed coding of choice, action and engagement across the mouse brain

(2019) Nicholas A. Steinmetz et al.   NATURE

Dynamics of social representation in the mouse prefrontal cortex

(2019) Dana Rubi Levy et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Parenting — a paradigm for investigating the neural circuit basis of behavior

(2019) Johannes Kohl   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

The Neuropeptide Tac2 Controls a Distributed Brain State Induced by Chronic Social Isolation Stress

(2018) Moriel Zelikowsky et al.   CELL

Functional circuit architecture underlying parental behaviour

(2018) Johannes Kohl et al.   NATURE

A Hypothalamic Midbrain Pathway Essential for Driving Maternal Behaviors

(2018) Yi-Ya Fang et al.   NEURON

Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Social Behavior

(2018) Patrick Chen et al.   NEURON

Medial preoptic area in mice is capable of mediating sexually dimorphic behaviors regardless of gender

(2018) Yi-Chao Wei et al.   Nature Communications

Neural coding of sex-specific social information in the mouse brain

(2018) Ying Li et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning

(2018) Alexander Mathis et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

The Urge to Fight: Persistent Escalation by Alcohol and Role of NMDA Receptors in Mice

(2018) Herbert E. Covington et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Multisensory Logic of Infant-Directed Aggression by Males

(2018) Yoh Isogai et al.   CELL

AGRP Neurons Project to the Medial Preoptic Area and Modulate Maternal Nest-Building

(2018) Xing-Yu Li et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A circuit from hippocampal CA2 to lateral septum disinhibits social aggression

(2018) Felix Leroy et al.   NATURE

A hippocampal circuit linking dorsal CA2 to ventral CA1 critical for social memory dynamics

(2018) Torcato Meira et al.   Nature Communications

Valence coding in amygdala circuits

(2018) Michele Pignatelli et al.   Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Social behaviour shapes hypothalamic neural ensemble representations of conspecific sex

(2017) Ryan Remedios et al.   NATURE

An intra-amygdala circuit specifically regulates social fear learning

(2017) Robert C Twining et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

A Labeled-Line Neural Circuit for Pheromone-Mediated Sexual Behaviors in Mice

(2017) Kentaro K. Ishii et al.   NEURON

Detecting Activated Cell Populations Using Single-Cell RNA-Seq

(2017) Ye Emily Wu et al.   NEURON

Dopamine in the medial amygdala network mediates human bonding

(2017) Shir Atzil et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

History of winning remodels thalamo-PFC circuit to reinforce social dominance

(2017) Tingting Zhou et al.   SCIENCE

Hippocampal oxytocin receptors are necessary for discrimination of social stimuli

(2017) Tara Raam et al.   Nature Communications

Embryonic transcription factor expression in mice predicts medial amygdala neuronal identity and sex-specific responses to innate behavioral cues

(2017) Julieta E Lischinsky et al.   eLife

Oxytocin signaling in the medial amygdala is required for sex discrimination of social cues

(2017) Shenqin Yao et al.   eLife

The neural circuits of mating and fighting in male mice

(2016) Koichi Hashikawa et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Simultaneous fast measurement of circuit dynamics at multiple sites across the mammalian brain

(2016) Christina K Kim et al.   NATURE METHODS

Hypothalamic control of male aggression-seeking behavior

(2016) Annegret L Falkner et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Agouti-related peptide neural circuits mediate adaptive behaviors in the starved state

(2016) Stephanie L Padilla et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Ucn3 and CRF-R2 in the medial amygdala regulate complex social dynamics

(2016) Yair Shemesh et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Oxytocin Enhances Social Recognition by Modulating Cortical Control of Early Olfactory Processing

(2016) Lars-Lennart Oettl et al.   NEURON

Ventral CA1 neurons store social memory

(2016) T. Okuyama et al.   SCIENCE

Genetic Isolation of Hypothalamic Neurons that Regulate Context-Specific Male Social Behavior

(2016) Marta E. Soden et al.   Cell Reports

Dendritic Organization of Olfactory Inputs to Medial Amygdala Neurons

(2015) S. Keshavarzi et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Viral-genetic tracing of the input–output organization of a central noradrenaline circuit

(2015) Lindsay A. Schwarz et al.   NATURE

Oxytocin enables maternal behaviour by balancing cortical inhibition

(2015) Bianca J. Marlin et al.   NATURE

From circuits to behaviour in the amygdala

(2015) Patricia H. Janak et al.   NATURE

Mapping Sub-Second Structure in Mouse Behavior

(2015) Alexander B. Wiltschko et al.   NEURON

Automated measurement of mouse social behaviors using depth sensing, video tracking, and machine learning

(2015) Weizhe Hong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Medial Amygdalar Aromatase Neurons Regulate Aggression in Both Sexes

(2015) Elizabeth K. Unger et al.   Cell Reports

Long-Term Social Recognition Memory Is Mediated by Oxytocin-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity in the Medial Amygdala

(2014) Rotem Gur et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Afferent projections to the different medial amygdala subdivisions: a retrograde tracing study in the mouse

(2014) Bernardita Cádiz-Moretti et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Antagonistic Control of Social versus Repetitive Self-Grooming Behaviors by Separable Amygdala Neuronal Subsets

(2014) Weizhe Hong et al.   CELL

Decoding Ventromedial Hypothalamic Neural Activity during Male Mouse Aggression

(2014) A. L. Falkner et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Functional Properties and Projections of Neurons in the Medial Amygdala

(2014) S. Keshavarzi et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The hippocampal CA2 region is essential for social memory

(2014) Frederick L. Hitti et al.   NATURE

Galanin neurons in the medial preoptic area govern parental behaviour

(2014) Zheng Wu et al.   NATURE

Sex-specific processing of social cues in the medial amygdala

(2014) Joseph F Bergan et al.   eLife

Behavioral Transition from Attack to Parenting in Male Mice: A Crucial Role of the Vomeronasal System

(2013) K. S. Tachikawa et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Fear Processing and Social Networking in the Absence of a Functional Amygdala

(2012) Benjamin Becker et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Parsing the neural correlates of moral cognition: ALE meta-analysis on morality, theory of mind, and empathy

(2012) Danilo Bzdok et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Modular Genetic Control of Sexually Dimorphic Behaviors

(2012) Xiaohong Xu et al.   CELL

Intrinsic Amygdala-Cortical Functional Connectivity Predicts Social Network Size in Humans

(2012) K. C. Bickart et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Choice-specific sequences in parietal cortex during a virtual-navigation decision task

(2012) Christopher D. Harvey et al.   NATURE

Differential efferent projections of the anterior, posteroventral, and posterodorsal subdivisions of the medial amygdala in mice

(2012) Cecília Pardo-Bellver et al.   Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Functional identification of an aggression locus in the mouse hypothalamus

(2011) Dayu Lin et al.   NATURE

Disruption of urinary odor preference and lordosis behavior in female mice given lesions of the medial amygdala

(2011) Brett T. DiBenedictis et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Bidirectional Control of Social Hierarchy by Synaptic Efficacy in Medial Prefrontal Cortex

(2011) F. Wang et al.   SCIENCE

Multiple telencephalic and extratelencephalic embryonic domains contribute neurons to the medial extended amygdala

(2010) Munisamy Bupesh et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Encoding of conditioned fear in central amygdala inhibitory circuits

(2010) Stephane Ciocchi et al.   NATURE

Identification of distinct telencephalic progenitor pools for neuronal diversity in the amygdala

(2009) Tsutomu Hirata et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Dissociation of neural networks for anticipation and consumption of monetary and social rewards

(2009) Lena Rademacher et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Genetic mapping of Foxb1-cell lineage shows migration from caudal diencephalon to telencephalon and lateral hypothalamus

(2008) Tianyu Zhao et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Development of the mouse amygdala as revealed by enhanced green fluorescent protein gene transfer by means of in utero electroporation

(2008) Miho Soma et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY