Natale R. Sciolino

This study investigates the functional role of lateral hypothalamic GABAergic projections to the dorsal pons and lateral preoptic area in behaviors related to feeding, predation, and reinforcement.

This study shows that phasic locus coeruleus activation enhances palatability encoding in gustatory cortex by reshaping population geometry, while tonic activation has limited effects.

The paper investigates NE and DA release dynamics in hippocampal CA1 during contextual fear conditioning using mouse models and fiber photometry, finding sex-dependent effects and differential impacts on memory recall.

This study shows that disrupting minor spliceosome function in mouse hypothalamic progenitors leads to altered neuronal subtype composition and obesity due to disrupted energy balance regulation.

This study shows that chemogenetic activation of locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons strengthens functional connectivity in the default mode network in mice.

This study shows that eliminating galanin in noradrenergic neurons reduces galanin in specific brain regions and alters coping behaviors without affecting norepinephrine levels.

This study shows that locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) neurons modulate feeding by integrating external and internal cues, with their activity changing during food approach and consumption.