Excited to share our detailed RNAscope mapping of oxytocin receptor in vole brain, relation to DA receptors, SNPs & mRNA-protein mismatch. Evidence of presynaptic function! Great teamwork by Kiyoshi Inoue, @Charles53738010 & Kengo Horie! doi.org/10.1002/cne.25…

This is pretty impressive: EGFP lost 50% of its fluorescence in ~10 minutes, but StayGold lasted 3 hours! How long will it take someone to make a GCaMP out of this? nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thanks to the Neuroscience Institute and NI grad students/post docs (Niko Rigney, Nick Schappaugh, Emma Shaughnessy, Dr. Caitlin Friesen,Jack Taylor, @ericacross, Susan Lee, Fadya Mroue Ruiz) for hosting GSU Undergraduate Neuroscience Program students at the SBN Tweets Annual Meeting. #SBN2022 #TheStateWay #GSUArtSci

✨ One more #OptoGRC2022 Session update! ✨ Our social brains are excited for this session on the neural circuits underlying sociality led by Malavika Murugan & featuring Jessica Osterhout PhD, Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD, Dayu Lin, Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Stuber Lab & Stephen Zhang 🫂🧠

Humans and animals display prosocial behaviors to benefit the well-being of others. In this review, we provide a cross-species view of the behavioral manifestations, proximate and ultimate drives, and discuss the underlying neural mechanisms. Free link: bit.ly/3o4Q9um

With Roe overturned, some states are rushing to criminalize not only abortion — but 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 about abortion. Here’s what you need to know. 🧵

How dopamine is released during social behaviors, such as aggression, mating and parental care? Check out our new study in Cell Reports that tries to answer this question. It is led by a terrific student, Bing Dai, and a collaboration with Yulong Li Lab. cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Apparently microglia have oxytocin now? People, please stop giving out the recipe. It's supposed to be a 9 SECRET amino acids and spices. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The Tschida Lab would love to take a new grad student this cycle. We study the neural circuits that regulate vocal communication, as well as how mouse ultrasonic vocalizations contribute to social success and fitness. Happy to chat with any interested students, and please RT!

Please RT! Full Professorship (W3) for Zoology / Evolution at ⁦Universität Konstanz⁩ - social behavior of particular interest. DM or email me for further info. Come join our amazing community! nature.com/naturecareers/…

Excited to share the first preprint from our lab. In it, we explored how social and non-social rewards were represented in the medial prefrontal cortex across both male and female mice. (1/10) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This collective effort was led by a very talented MD-PhD student Jennifer Isaac and a superb undergraduate student Sonia (stars of the show!). (2/10)

With key contributions from Hymavathy Balasubramanian (helped analyze the data) and Nick Schappaugh (helped develop the behavioral assay). Jari L. Javier / river to the sea 🇵🇸 and Maha Rashid helped with behavior and surgeries. (3/10)

To directly compare social and sucrose reward behaviors, we developed a low-cost, fully automated operant assay in which mice could flexibly choose between social and sucrose rewards. (4/10)

Big congratulations to Rachael Beaumont on fantastic news from U.S. National Science Foundation #GRFP! This will greatly help her study the neurobiology of male & *female* reproductive decision-making in #PrairieVoles here at Cornell Psychology ! Stay tuned for some great work from Rachael in the coming years!

Thanks Alex! I’m so excited for this amazing opportunity!!

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During motherhood, females spend all their time caring for the young. However, nearly 100% virgin female mice in the wild kill pups. In our new study published today nature, we revealed the neural circuit responsible for this drastic behavior switch. rdcu.be/ddZgF