Anna Zhukovskaya

The paper identifies cell type-specific transcriptional changes in the VTA of resilient versus susceptible mice subjected to chronic stress, highlighting intercellular signaling and neural communication as key factors in resilience.

The paper shows that heightened lateral habenula activity during stress leads to lasting brainwide and behavioral susceptibility in mice.

This paper develops a bidirectional neural activity reporter in Drosophila and uses it to study social behaviors, showing fruitless is required for male arousal neuron activation by female cues.

The paper compares cortical and thalamic inputs to the nucleus accumbens in mice during a reinforcement learning task, finding that cortical inputs represent actions and choices while thalamic inputs represent cues, with cortical sequences supporting reinforcement learning.

This study shows that acetic acid elicits opposing feeding responses in Drosophila depending on hunger state, mediated by distinct taste pathways.