Veronika Kondev

Cortical astrocytes control stress resilience

The paper identifies a role for prefrontal cortex astrocytes in stress resilience using mouse models and RNA-sequencing, showing distinct transcriptional responses between resilient and susceptible mice.

Astrocytic CREB regulates transcriptional, neuronal, and behavioral responses to cocaine

The paper investigates cocaine-induced astrocyte-specific transcriptome in mice, identifies CREB as a key regulator, and shows its role in modulating neuronal and behavioral responses to cocaine.

Dopaminoceptive D1 and D2 neurons in ventral hippocampus arbitrate approach and avoidance in anxiety

This study identifies D1 and D2 dopamine receptor-expressing neurons in the mouse ventral hippocampus and shows they mediate opposing approach/avoidance behaviors during anxiety-related tasks.