[HTML][HTML] Hypothalamic melanin-concentrating hormone neurons integrate food-motivated appetitive and consummatory processes in rats

…, KN Donohue, AE Kao, AG Bashaw… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The lateral hypothalamic area (LHA) integrates homeostatic processes and reward-motivated
behaviors. Here we show that LHA neurons that produce melanin-concentrating hormone (…

Dopamine differentially modulates the size of projection neuron ensembles in the intact and dopamine-depleted striatum

M Maltese, JR March, AG Bashaw, NX Tritsch - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Dopamine (DA) is a critical modulator of brain circuits that control voluntary movements, but
our understanding of its influence on the activity of target neurons in vivo remains limited. …

A Drosophila model of sleep restriction therapy for insomnia

SJ Belfer, AG Bashaw, ML Perlis, MS Kayser - Molecular psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder among adults, especially affecting individuals
of advanced age or with neurodegenerative disease. Insomnia is also a common comorbidity …

[PDF][PDF] Ventral hippocampus-lateral septum circuitry promotes foraging-related memory

…, CM Liu, LT Lauer, K Subramanian, AG Bashaw… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Remembering the location of a food or water source is essential for survival. Here, we reveal
that spatial memory for food location is reflected in ventral hippocampus (HPCv) neuron …

[HTML][HTML] Ventral hippocampus neurons encode meal-related memory

…, SN Chehimi, AE Kao, I Deng, AG Bashaw… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The ability to encode and retrieve meal-related information is critical to efficiently guide energy
acquisition and consumption, yet the underlying neural processes remain elusive. Here …

Hippocampus oxytocin signaling promotes prosocial eating in rats

JJ Rea, CM Liu, AMR Hayes, AG Bashaw, G Schwartz… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The hypothalamic neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) influences both food intake and social
behavior. Given that food preference and consumption are heavily affected by social factors in …

[PDF][PDF] Dopamine modulates the size of striatal projection neuron ensembles

M Maltese, JR March, AG Bashaw, NX Tritsch - bioRxiv, 2019 - scholar.archive.org
17 Dopamine (DA) is a critical modulator of brain circuits that control voluntary movements,
but our 18 understanding of its influence on the activity of target neurons in vivo remains …

A Drosophila Model for Behavioral Sleep Modification

SJ Belfer, AG Bashaw, ML Perlis, MS Kayser - bioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder among adults, especially affecting individuals
of advanced age or with neurodegenerative disease. Insomnia is also a common comorbidity …

Axon growth and guidance: receptor regulation and signal transduction

…, RK Chance, GJ Bashaw - Annual review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
… Li & G. Bashaw, unpublished results). Although regulation of GAP activity of Vilse/crGAP
could account for the observed increase in Rac-GTP following Robo receptor activation, loss-of-…

Signaling from axon guidance receptors

GJ Bashaw, R Klein - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2010 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Determining how axon guidance receptors transmit signals to allow precise pathfinding
decisions is fundamental to our understanding of nervous system development and may suggest …