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Esmeralda Tafani

Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology

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Neuronal networks in the dorsal hippocampus causally regulate rescue behavior in mice

Moisés dos Santos Corrêa, Anna Agafonova, Ada Braun, Charitha Omprakash, Esmeralda Tafani, Melissa Lowitsch, Leon Marquardt, Pavol Bauer, Anne Albrecht, Sanja Mikulovic

This study shows that the dorsal hippocampus is essential for learning rescue behavior in mice, with specific neural activity patterns linked to prosocial actions.

Cell Reports · Jan 30, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Rewarding capacity of optogenetically activating a giant GABAergic central-brain interneuron in larval Drosophila

Nino Mancini, Juliane Thoener, Esmeralda Tafani, Dennis Pauls, Oded Mayseless, Martin Strauch, Katharina Eichler, Andrew S Champion, Oliver Kobler, Denise Weber, Edanur Sen, Aliće Weiglein, Volker Hartenstein, Charalampos‐Chrysovalantis Chytoudis‐Peroudis, Tihana Jovanic, , Bertram Gerber

The paper investigates the role of the APL neuron in larval Drosophila, finding that optogenetic activation can induce a rewarding effect through dopaminergic pathways.

Journal of Neuroscience · Sep 21, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience