Recording cortico-hypothalamic projection neuron activity in mice living in an automated naturalistic open-design maze
Clara Hartmann, Huib Mansvelder, Mahesh Karnani · FENS Forum 2024
Motivated behaviors such as feeding, drinking, and social behaviors, and the ability to efficiently switch between them, are essential for survival. The lateral hypothalamus (LH) plays a central role in orchestrating motivated behaviors. As there is minimal local synaptic communication within the LH, long-range synaptic input is critical to LH neural computations. In particular, the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), which integrates complex information about the environment, projects to the LH. However, it is unknown when mPFC to LH projection neurons are active. In this study, we combine in vi
ePoster · Neuroscience