Dayu Lin: Neural Circuits and Neurochemicals for Aggression, Sexual, and Parental Behaviors

Aggression, mating, and parenting are evolutionarily conserved social behaviors that enable survival and reproduction. Identifying neural circuits and neurotransmitters in the brain that control these behaviors is not only of academic interest, but may also lead to new approaches for reducing pathological aggression, child abuse, and other unwanted behaviors. Professor Dayu Lin at New York University has used cutting-edge technological approaches including chemogenetics and optogenetics combined with electrophysiology and behavioral analyses to identify the neural circuits and some of the neurochemicals that control aggressive, reproductive, and parental behaviors. Her laboratory is showing how sensory information is integrated to drive behaviors and how social experiences change neural circuits to modify subsequent behavioral responses. 

LINKS

Lin Laboratory: https://www.dayulinlab.org/

Relevant articles:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8141016/pdf/nihms-1673856.pdf

https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0092-8674%2824%2901088-2

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11102773/pdf/nihms-1988381.pdf

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10648307/pdf/nihms-1941603.pdf

 

https://www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fulltext/neuro/48/1/annurev-neuro-112723-041639.pdf?expires=1760359246&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=1D4A68B0EDC24E4C9E6DC71C253C9907