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Aphroditi A. Mamaligas

The University of SydneyORCID 0000-0002-9733-6285Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Need-selective gating of dopamine neuron cue responses by real and virtual hunger

Aphroditi A. Mamaligas, Joshua D. Berke, Anatol C. Kreitzer, Zachary A. Knight

This study shows that dopamine neuron responses to food and water cues are modulated by internal state, with hunger-specific amplification of food cue responses.

bioRxiv · Dec 2, 2025 · PreprintNeuroscience

Chronic hyperactivation of midbrain dopamine neurons causes preferential dopamine neuron degeneration

Katerina Rademacher, Zak Doric, Dominik Haddad, Aphroditi A. Mamaligas, Szu-Chi Liao, Rose B. Creed, Kohei Kano, Zac Chatterton, YuHong Fu, Joseph H. Garcia, Victoria Vance, Yoshitaka J. Sei, Anatol C. Kreitzer, Glenda Margaret Halliday, Alexandra Nelson, , Ken Nakamura

This study shows that chronic hyperactivation of midbrain dopamine neurons leads to their preferential degeneration, suggesting increased neural activity may contribute to Parkinson's disease pathology.

bioRxiv · Apr 5, 2024Neuroscience