Nejmeh Mashhour

This study identifies the claustrum's role in appetitive feeding by showing its neurons and circuitry reduce high-fat diet intake.

This study shows that peripheral CB1R inhibition reduces food intake and improves metabolism in obese mice through both vagal-dependent brainstem activation and vagal-independent hypothalamic effects.

This study investigates how the gut-brain vagal axis influences mesolimbic dopamine dynamics and reward behaviors, challenging the traditional brain-centric view of reward processing.

This study investigates the role of dopamine D2 autoreceptors in regulating VTA dopamine neuron responses to aversive stimuli and finds they act as a regulatory brake with sex-biased effects on threat processing.