Seminar · Behavioral Neuroscience
Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Emotional and Social Processing
Kay Tye · University of California, San Diego
Fri, Jun 5, 2020 · 00:00 UTC
How does our brain rapidly determine if something is good or bad? How do we know our place within a social group? How do we know how to behave appropriately in dynamic environments with ever-changing conditions? The Tye Lab is interested in understanding how neural circuits important for driving positive and negative motivational valence (seeking pleasure or avoiding punishment) are anatomically, genetically and functionally arranged. We study the neural mechanisms that underlie a wide range of behaviours ranging from learned to innate, including social, feeding, reward-seeking and anxiety-re