Lechen Qian

Opposing glutamatergic MPN Isolation and mostly GABAergic MPN Reunion neurons in the mouse preoptic hypothalamus encode social need and satiety, with touch as a likely cue.

This study investigates how dopamine signals in the ventral striatum relate to contingency during associative learning in mice, finding that TD learning models with ITI state representations explain the results better than contingency-based models.