Bárbara Coimbra

The paper identifies valence-specific neuronal ensembles in the laterodorsal tegmentum that encode salient stimuli and modulate motivated behavior through optogenetic reactivation.

The paper identifies distinct neuronal ensembles in the nucleus accumbens activated by cocaine and foot shock, showing different functional roles in reward and aversion.

This study shows that loss of normal Tau function in the adult brain causes neuronal atrophy, epigenetic changes, and cognitive/mood deficits, which can be reversed by Tau re-expression or epigenetic correction.

This study shows that cocaine-induced changes in cholinergic projections from the LDT to the NAc bidirectionally affect cocaine's reinforcing effects.

The paper shows that D1- and D2-MSNs in the NAc shell encode appetitive and aversive stimuli and their extinction, with D2-MSNs playing a key role in aversive association extinction.

The paper examines how maternal depressive symptoms and hair cortisol concentration during pregnancy predict neonatal corpus callosum integrity using MRI and DTI data.

This study examines how D1- and D2-neurons in the nucleus accumbens encode positive and aversive associations during Pavlovian conditioning, showing dynamic changes in their activity.

This study shows that activating D2-MSN projections to the ventral pallidum increases anxious-like behavior in mice, linked to reduced GABAergic activity in the VP.

This study shows that D2-MSN projections to the ventral pallidum have opposing effects on motivation depending on the phase of motivated behavior.

The paper shows that the cerebral cortex operates near a critical phase transition in spiking variability, with critical exponents distinct from mean-field directed percolation.