Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Stress-induced plasticity of a CRH/GABA projection disrupts reward behaviors in mice

  • Matthew T. Birnie,
  • Annabel K. Short,
  • Gregory B. de Carvalho,
  • Lara Taniguchi,
  • Benjamin G. Gunn,
  • Aidan L. Pham,
  • Christy A. Itoga,
  • Xiangmin Xu,
  • Lulu Y. Chen,
  • Stephen V. Mahler,
  • Yuncai Chen,
  • Tallie Z. Baram

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36780-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Reward circuit dysfunction is a mechanism for key emotional disorders that commonly arise after early life stresses (ELA). Here, the authors discover a projection from amygdala to nucleus accumbens that underlies ELA-induced reward deficits in mice.