Thrilled about our new @janaklab.bsky.social paper now out in @npp-journal.bsky.social🧠⚡
Action-sequence termination cues evoke mesolimbic dopamine activity that drives habit-like behavior.
Thanks to Tricia Janak, @younavandaele.bsky.social, and @yfcheng.bsky.social!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Check out this very cool new paper on rat ultrasonic vocalizations emitted in a naturalistic habitat--some surprising findings, and cool quantitative analyses done by Jordan Saltzman in the Ron Frostig Lab in Neurobiology & Behavior @ucirvine.bsky.social
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Easily the largest dataset of neurons recorded in the central amygdala during sucrose and alcohol self administration to date - super cool!
More evidence the CeA is a motivational amplifier (but I’m biased bc it’s from @janaklab.bsky.social )
New preprint from the lab "Contingency degradation overwrites initial learning and depends on lateral orbitofrontal cortex": url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/pos5CjZ1N7...
Highlights:
* Degradation reduces responding that does not spontaneously reover
* Degradation does not reinstate and... 1/2
Chemogenetic Inhibition of Lateral Hypothalamus Inputs to the Paraventricular Thalamus Reduces Goal-Tracking in a Behaviorally Flexible Subgroup of Male Rats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.28.728487v1
