Marco A. Diana

The paper identifies a cortico-subcortical loop involving the pontine reticular formation that regulates motor activity, parallel to the basal ganglia circuits.

The paper identifies persistent post-stress activity of paraventricular thalamic neurons as critical for stress-induced maladaptive behavior and shows that inhibiting this activity can alleviate symptoms.

This study shows that GFRalpha1 is essential for synaptic stability and function in adult medial habenula neurons, affecting anxiety and fear behaviors.

The paper shows that indirect and direct striatal neurons intermix through active migration, with Ebf1 mutation disrupting this process and affecting striatal architecture.