Silvia Natale

The paper investigates the role of immediate early genes (IEGs) in social defeat-induced behavioral plasticity in the medial hypothalamus, finding that IEG activity is critical for adaptation and that NMDA receptor mechanisms may oppose this effect.

This study shows that complement signaling via C3r is critical for perinatal neuronal elimination but not synaptic pruning in the developing brain.

This study uses pharmacogenetic inhibition to show that the cerebral cortex acutely suppresses innate defensive behaviors in response to threatening stimuli.

The paper identifies a neural circuit in mice that balances approach and avoidance behaviors during prey capture by linking lateral hypothalamus GABAergic neurons to periaqueductal grey neurons.