Despite decades of research and anti-tobacco messaging, nicotine addiction remains an
important public health problem leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths each year …

Multimodal astrocyte–neuron communications govern brain circuitry assembly and function.
For example, through rapid glutamate release, astrocytes can control excitability, plasticity …

Ventral tegmental area (VTA) projections to the nucleus accumbens (NAc) drive reward-
related motivation. Although dopamine neurons are predominant, a substantial …

Aim Calcium‐activated ligand‐gated chloride channels, beyond their role in maintaining
anion homeostasis, modulate neuronal excitability by facilitating nonvesicular …

Based on the auditory periphery and the small head size, Etruscan shrews (Suncus
etruscus) approximate ancestral mammalian conditions. The auditory brainstem in this …

Introduction Diabetes is a metabolic disorder of glucose homeostasis that is a significant risk
factor for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, as well as mood …

Diseases associated with nicotine dependence in the form of habitual tobacco use are a
major cause of premature death in the United States. The majority of tobacco smokers will …

Striatal cholinergic interneurons (CINs) use acetylcholine (ACh) and glutamate (Glut) to
regulate the striatal network since they express vesicular transporters for ACh (VAChT) and …

Electrophysiological and anatomical studies of interactions between the catecholaminergic
system, interpeduncular nucleus and nu Page 1 Faculty of Biology Institute of Zoology and …

The habenula (Hb) is a small structure of the posterior diencephalon that is highly conserved
across vertebrates but nonetheless has attracted relatively little research attention until the …