Search Results - "Heaton, Elizabeth C"
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Nanoparticle encapsulated oxytocin increases resistance to induced seizures and restores social behavior in Scn1a-derived epilepsy
Published in Neurobiology of disease (01-01-2021)“…Oxytocin (OT) has broad effects in the brain and plays an important role in cognitive, social, and neuroendocrine function. OT has also been identified as…”
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Estrogen Withdrawal Increases Postpartum Anxiety via Oxytocin Plasticity in the Paraventricular Hypothalamus and Dorsal Raphe Nucleus
Published in Biological psychiatry (1969) (01-05-2021)“…Estrogen increases dramatically during pregnancy but quickly drops below prepregnancy levels at birth and remains suppressed during the postpartum period…”
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HIV status affects PTSD symptom severity, psychophysiology, and heart rate variability in women with low but not high exposure to childhood maltreatment
Published in Stress (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (2024)“…People living with HIV (PLWH) experience high rates of childhood trauma exposure, which is a significant risk factor for the development of posttraumatic…”
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Inter-individual variability amplified through breeding reveals control of reward-related action strategies by Melanocortin-4 Receptor in the dorsomedial striatum
Published in Communications biology (08-02-2022)“…In day-to-day life, we often must choose between pursuing familiar behaviors or adjusting behaviors when new strategies might be more fruitful. The dorsomedial…”
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Control of goal-directed and inflexible actions by dorsal striatal melanocortin systems, in coordination with the central nucleus of the amygdala
Published in Progress in neurobiology (01-07-2024)“…The dorsomedial striatum (DMS) is associated with flexible goal seeking, as opposed to routinized habits. Whether local mechanisms brake this function, for…”
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Simultaneous EEG and pupillary evidence for post‐error arousal during a speeded performance task
Published in The European journal of neuroscience (01-01-2021)“…Arousal evoked by detecting a performance error may provide a mechanism by which error detection leads to either adaptive or maladaptive changes in attention…”
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Is attention enhanced following performance errors? Testing the adaptive control hypothesis
Published in Psychophysiology (01-04-2018)“…The present study tested whether people adaptively sharpen attentional focus following performance mistakes, as predicted by current theories of cognitive…”
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Striatal Melanocortin-4 Receptor Control of Action Flexibility
Published 01-01-2023“…More than half of all individuals in treatment for substance use disorder (SUD) will relapse. Inflexibility in selecting between familiar, habitual behaviors…”
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