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Ryan Patwell

Heidelberg UniversityORCID 0000-0002-1885-1634Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Alexandre CharletiD· 2 shared Arthur LefèvreiD· 2 shared Ferdinand AlthammeriD· 2 shared Valery GrinevichiD· 2 shared Alan KaniaiD· 1 shared Aleksandra TrenkiD· 1 shared Ana Zovko· 1 shared Andrei V. RozoviD· 1 shared

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Oxytocin facilitates social behavior of female rats via selective modulation of interneurons in the medial prefrontal cortex

Stephanie Schimmer, Alan Kania, Arthur Lefèvre, Konstantinos Afordakos, Kai-Yi Wang, Julia Lebedeva, Andrei V. Rozov, Androniki Raftogianni, Rishika Tiwari, Shai Netser, Ana Zovko, Huma Shaheen, Jonas Schimmer, Ryan Patwell, Clémence Denis, , Valery Grinevich

This study identifies a circuit in the medial prefrontal cortex where oxytocin modulates interneurons to promote social behavior in female rats, even under physiological stress.

Nature Communications · Feb 20, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

A novel analgesic pathway from parvocellular oxytocin neurons to the periaqueductal gray

Mai Iwasaki, Arthur Lefèvre, Ferdinand Althammer, Olga Łąpieś, Louis Hilfiger, Damien Kerspern, Meggane Melchior, Stephanie Küppers, Quirin Krablicher, Ryan Patwell, Sabine Christiane Herpertz, Beate Ditzen, Kai Schönig, Dušan Bartsch, Javier Eduardo Stern, , Alexandre Charlet

The paper identifies a novel analgesic pathway involving parvocellular oxytocin neurons projecting to the vlPAG, which suppresses spinal cord sensory neuron activity and alleviates pain.

bioRxiv · Feb 23, 2022 · PreprintNeuroscience