Topic: AMPARs

Parenting is essential for the well-being of newborns. Laboratory virgin female mice exhibit parental behaviors, including pup retrieval, a phenotype that becomes progressively more efficient when exposed to multiple pups. Yet, the neuronal substrate that supports such behavioral improvement remains unexplored. Previous studies highlight the lateral habenula (LHb) as a substrate for parental behaviors in virgin females. Notably, a population of LHb cells innervated by the excitatory bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) shows increased activity during pup retrieval. Consistently, perturba