Louk J. M. J. Vanderschuren

This study shows that high-risk play during development affects cognitive flexibility, emotional behavior, and prefrontal inhibitory signaling in rats, with sex-specific effects.

This study investigates how CaMKIIa+ neurons in the BNST modulate natural reward seeking behaviors, showing their role in regulating sexual behavior and sucrose self-administration based on internal state.

The paper investigates how social play behavior affects the development of inhibitory and excitatory neurotransmission in different prefrontal cortex regions in rats.

This study shows that social play during early life is essential for developing inhibitory synapses in the prefrontal cortex and cognitive flexibility in rats.

This study investigates how hyperdopaminergic states affect decision-making in rats by examining the role of VTA projections to the nucleus accumbens and prefrontal cortex.