Camilla Bellone

This study compares prenatal cortical development in two rodents, showing that major developmental milestones occur prenatally in Acomys, challenging the view that postnatal experience is essential for early brain maturation.

This paper optimizes temporal interference stimulation (TIS) targeting in mice to reduce off-target effects while maintaining efficacy in the prefrontal cortex.

This study shows that oxytocin release reduces acute neuroinflammation and improves long-term brain development after pediatric traumatic brain injury in mice.

BlueBerry is a wireless optogenetic device for real-time, closed-loop manipulation of neuronal activity in freely moving animals, enabling scalable studies of social behavior and decision-making.

This study investigates the role of dopamine D2 autoreceptors in regulating VTA dopamine neuron responses to aversive stimuli and finds they act as a regulatory brake with sex-biased effects on threat processing.

The paper identifies a circuit linking AIC and NAc neurons that encode social interaction valence, leading to distinct synaptic plasticity and behavior.

This study shows that social isolation during adolescence in mice affects social behavior and neural activity, with effects mediated by oxytocin neurons in the hypothalamus.

This study identifies a Superior Colliculus to VTA neural pathway that controls orienting responses to conspecifics by activating specific dopamine neurons.

The paper shows that inhibiting TRPV4 rescues social and circuit deficits in Shank3 mutant mice induced by inflammation.

The paper shows VTA dopamine neurons encode social reward prediction error during conspecific interactions and drive social reinforcement learning.

This study investigates the role of Shank3 in anxiety behaviors by downregulating it in the BNST during adolescence and shows its impact on synaptic plasticity and anxiety-related behaviors.

This study identifies impaired motor skill learning-dependent synaptic plasticity at motor cortex to DLS synapses in a YAC128 HD mouse model, suggesting it as an early biomarker for Huntington's disease.

This paper shows that SHANK3 downregulation in the VTA speeds up the extinction of contextual associations formed through social interaction in a CPP paradigm.

This study identifies a role for VTA dopamine neurons in social novelty exploration and links their dysfunction to ASD-like behaviors in mice.