Dong Kong

This study shows that astrocytic lactate supply via MCT4 and MCT2 is essential for maintaining wakefulness and sleep stability by supporting orexinergic neuron activity.

This study shows chronic stress impairs endogenous neurosteroid signaling in the BLA, leading to behavioral deficits, and suggests targeting neurosteroidogenesis could be a new treatment for mood disorders.

This study investigates how ventral striatopallidal neurons modulate orexin/hypocretin neuron activity in response to food and metabolic states, revealing their role in reward-seeking behavior.

In vivo treatment with 2-deoxyglucose after traumatic brain injury in mice prevented cortical hyperexcitability, synaptic changes, and loss of GABAergic interneurons.

This study identifies PACAP-expressing neurons in the ventral premammillary nucleus that regulate reproductive function in female mice by modulating kisspeptin neurons.