SeminarPast EventNeuroscience

Mapping the neural dynamics of dominance and defeat

Schedule
Thursday, December 12, 2024
12:15 UTC
Annegret Falkner

Princeton Neuroscience Institute, USA

Host: NeuroLeman Network

Event Information

Host

NeuroLeman Network

Duration

70 minutes

Abstract

Social experiences can have lasting changes on behavior and affective state. In particular, repeated wins and losses during fighting can facilitate and suppress future aggressive behavior, leading to persistent high aggression or low aggression states. We use a combination of techniques for multi-region neural recording, perturbation, behavioral analysis, and modeling to understand how nodes in the brain’s subcortical “social decision-making network” encode and transform aggressive motivation into action, and how these circuits change following social experience.

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