Regina Marie Sullivan

The paper identifies neural circuits in female mice that drive opposing pup-directed behaviors, showing reciprocal inhibition between BNSTprEsr1 and MPOAEsr1 neurons during reproductive state changes.

The paper investigates threat learning in anxiety-like rats, showing that maternal presence and FGF2 administration can suppress early conditioned freezing, though not corticosterone levels.

The paper shows that social interactions between mother mice and virgin mice activate oxytocin neurons, enabling the virgins to acquire maternal behavior through social transmission.

The paper shows that adverse caregiving in infancy reduces neural processing of the mother in rats, with potential implications for later-life pathology.