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A dual-pathway architecture enables chronic stress to disrupt agency and promote habit formation Megha Sehgal Jacqueline R. Giovanniello, Natalie Paredes, Anna Wiener, Kathia Ramírez-Armenta, Chukwuebuka Oragwam, Hanniel O. Uwadia, Abigail L. Yu, Kayla Lim, Jenna S. Pimenta, Gabriela E. Vilchez, Gift Nnamdi, Alicia Wang, Megha Sehgal, Fernando McV Reis, Ana C. Sias, Alcino J. Silva, Avishek Adhikari, Melissa Malvaez, Kate M. Wassum Behavioral Neuroscience 2025
Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity in the mouse retrosplenial cortex links contextual memories formed close in time Megha Sehgal Megha Sehgal, Daniel Almeida Filho, George Kastellakis, Sungsoo Kim, Jinsu Lee, Yang Shen, Shan Huang, Ayal Lavi, Giselle Fernandes, Irene Davila Mejia, Sunaina Soans Martin, Asli Pekcan, Melody Shana Wu, Won Do Heo, Panayiota Poirazi, Joshua T. Trachtenberg, Alcino J. Silva Behavioral Neuroscience 2025
Evidence for the involvement of a fronto-striatal pathway in the processing of social reward Laurence Coutellier Katrina Lin, Laurence Coutellier Behavioral Neuroscience 2025
Gestational stress disrupts dopamine and oxytocin signaling in the postpartum reward system of rats: implications for mood, motivation and mothering Benedetta Leuner Achikam Haim, Christopher Albin-Brooks, Holly Brothers, Michaela Breach, Benedetta Leuner Behavioral Neuroscience 2025
Hormonal contraceptives during adolescence impact the female brain and behavior in a rat model Kathryn Lenz, Benedetta Leuner Rachel A. Gilfarb, Sanjana Ranade, Marissa Smail, Lynde Wangler, Meredith Stewart, Abhishek Rajesh, Kathryn M. Lenz, Benedetta Leuner Behavioral Neuroscience 2025
Hormonal contraceptives in adolescence impact the neuroimmune environment of the medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus in female rats Kathryn Lenz, Benedetta Leuner Rachel A. Gilfarb, Sanjana Ranade, Elizabeth Dybas, Abigail Biddle, Meredith Stewart, Abhishek Rajesh, Benedetta Leuner, Kathryn M. Lenz Behavioral Neuroscience 2025
Intracrine VEGF Signaling Is Required for Adult Hippocampal Neural Stem Cell Maintenance and Vascular Proximity Elizabeth Kirby Tyler J. Dause, Robert Osap, Akela A. Kuwahara, Jiyeon K. Denninger, Elizabeth D. Kirby Behavioral Neuroscience 2025
Neural stem and progenitor cells support and protect adult hippocampal function via vascular endothelial growth factor secretion Elizabeth Kirby Lisa N. Miller, Ashley E. Walters, Jiyeon K. Denninger, Meretta A. Hanson, Alec H. Marshall, Aidan C. Johantges, Manal Hosawi, Gwendolyn Sebring, Joshua D. Rieskamp, Tianli Ding, Raina Rindani, Kelly S. Chen, Megan E. Goldberg, Sakthi Senthilvelan, Abigail Volk, Fangli Zhao, Candice Askwith, Jason C. Wester, Elizabeth D. Kirby Behavioral Neuroscience 2025
Npas4 drives the effects of early social isolation on social behaviors and prefrontal parvalbumin neurons Laurence Coutellier Keshav Jindal, Amanda Ringland, Sydney Fitzcharles, Chase Redd, Damian G. Wheeler, Laurence Coutellier Behavioral Neuroscience 2025
Open-source, high performance miniature 2-photon microscopy systems for freely behaving animals Megha Sehgal Blake A. Madruga, Conor C. Dorian, Long Yang, Megha Sehgal, Alcino J. Silva, Matthew Shtrahman, Daniel Aharoni, Peyman Golshani Behavioral Neuroscience 2025
Peripartum buprenorphine and oxycodone exposure impair maternal behavior and increase neuroinflammation in new mother rats Kathryn Lenz, Benedetta Leuner Courtney N. Dye, Aliyah I. Webb, Madison P. Fankhauser, Jordyn J. Singleton, Aravind Kalathil, Amanda Ringland, Benedetta Leuner, Kathryn M. Lenz Behavioral Neuroscience 2025
Postnatal development of the dentate gyrus vascular niche Elizabeth Kirby Nidhi Devasthali, India Carter, Angela I. Saulsbery, Elizabeth D. Kirby Behavioral Neuroscience 2025
Regrouping reverses social impairments and prefrontal parvalbumin-perineuronal nets alterations induced by post-weaning social isolation in male mice Laurence Coutellier Siddharth Varman, Grace Caldwell, Laurence Coutellier Behavioral Neuroscience 2025
The effects of prepubertal ovariectomy and chronic stress on activity of brain limbic regions in adult mice Laurence Coutellier Emma Woodward, Sydney Fitzcharles, Laurence Coutellier Behavioral Neuroscience 2025
Voltage-Gated Ca2+ Channels in Prefrontal Parvalbumin Neurons Are Essential for Stress-Induced Depression Laurence Coutellier Katrina Lin, Laurence Coutellier Behavioral Neuroscience 2025
Autocrine VEGF drives neural stem cell proximity to the adult hippocampus vascular niche Elizabeth Kirby Tyler J. Dause, Jiyeon K. Denninger, Robert Osap, Ashley E. Walters, Joshua D. Rieskamp, Elizabeth D. Kirby Behavioral Neuroscience 2024
Beyond Birth Control: The Neuroscience of Hormonal Contraceptives Benedetta Leuner Jesse M. Lacasse, Carina Heller, Sarah Kheloui, Nafissa Ismail, Ami P. Raval, Kristen M. Schuh, Natalie C. Tronson, Benedetta Leuner Behavioral Neuroscience 2024
Control of feeding by a bottom-up midbrain-subthalamic pathway Megha Sehgal Fernando M. C. V. Reis , Sandra Maesta-Pereira, Matthias Ollivier, Peter J. Schuette, Ekayana Sethi, Blake A. Miranda, Emily Iniguez, Meghmik Chakerian, Eric Vaughn, Megha Sehgal, Darren C. T. Nguyen, Faith T. H. Yuan, Anita Torossian, Juliane M. Ikebara, Alexandre H. Kihara, Alcino J. Silva, Jonathan C. Kao, Baljit S. Khakh, Avishek Adhikari Behavioral Neuroscience 2024
Early spatial recognition memory deficits in 5XFAD female mice are associated with disruption of prefrontal parvalbumin neurons Laurence Coutellier Anish Ganesh, Wajih Choudhury, Laurence Coutellier Behavioral Neuroscience 2024
Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience (co-editor) Elizabeth Kirby Elizabeth D. Kirby, Melissa J. Glenn, Noah J. Sandstrom, Christina L. Williams Behavioral Neuroscience 2024
Neural stem and progenitor cells support and protect adult hippocampal function via vascular endothelial growth factor secretion Elizabeth Kirby Lisa N. Miller, Ashley E. Walters, Jiyeon K. Denninger, Meretta A. Hanson, Alec H. Marshall, Aidan C. Johantges, Manal Hosawi, Gwendolyn Sebring, Joshua D. Rieskamp, Tianli Ding, Raina Rindani, Kelly S. Chen, Megan E. Goldberg, Sakthi Senthilvelan, Abigail Volk, Fangli Zhao, Candice Askwith, Jason C. Wester, Elizabeth D. Kirby Behavioral Neuroscience 2024
Open-source, high performance miniature multiphoton microscopy systems for freely behaving animals Megha Sehgal Blake A. Madruga , Conor C. Dorian, Megha Sehgal, Alcino J. Silva, Matthew Shtrahman, Daniel Aharoni, Peyman Golshani Behavioral Neuroscience 2024
Excitatory amino acid transporter 1 supports adult hippocampal neural stem cell self-renewal Elizabeth Kirby Joshua D. Rieskamp, Ileanexis Rosado-Burgos, Jacob E. Christofi, Eliza Ansar, Dalia Einstein, Ashley E. Walters, Valentina Valentini, John P. Bruno, Elizabeth D. Kirby Behavioral Neuroscience 2023
Microglia depletion facilitates the display of maternal behavior and alters activation of the maternal brain network in nulliparous female rats Kathryn Lenz, Benedetta Leuner Courtney N. Dye, Dominic Franceschelli, Benedetta Leuner, Kathryn M. Lenz Behavioral Neuroscience 2023
Miniscope-LFOV: A large-field-of-view, single-cell-resolution, miniature microscope for wired and wire-free imaging of neural dynamics in freely behaving animals Megha Sehgal Changliang Guo, Garrett J. Blair, Megha Sehgal, Federico N. Sangiuliano Jimka, Arash Bellafard, Alcino J. Silva, Peyman Golshani, Michele A. Bass, Hugh Tad Blair, Daniel Aharoni Behavioral Neuroscience 2023