Lia J. Zallar

The paper identifies epigenomic and transcriptomic changes in the ventral dentate gyrus of mice exposed to prenatal adversity, linking these changes to anxiety-like behavior.

This study shows that high estrogen levels during the proestrus phase increase binge drinking in female mice via rapid nongenomic signaling at estrogen receptor alpha in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.

This study identifies two parallel circuits from the paraventricular thalamus to the nucleus accumbens that encode valence and salience with sex-dependent differences.