{"id":2952,"date":"2012-06-25T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/6-25-12-stuber-lab-publishes-in-nature-neuroscience\/"},"modified":"2018-07-05T15:02:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T19:02:50","slug":"6-25-12-stuber-lab-publishes-in-nature-neuroscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/6-25-12-stuber-lab-publishes-in-nature-neuroscience\/","title":{"rendered":"6\/25\/12: Stuber lab publishes in Nature Neuroscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- description --><\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">Activation of lateral habenula inputs to the ventral midbrain promotes behavioral avoidance<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dr. Garret Stuber and Alice Stamatakis have published a new paper in Nature Neuroscience. The paper is on the role of Habenula inputs to the midbrain in promoting avoidance behaviors. Lateral habenula (LHb) projections to the ventral midbrain, including the rostromedial tegmental nucleus (RMTg), convey negative reward\u2013related information, but the behavioral ramifications of selective activation of this pathway remain unexplored. We found that exposure to aversive stimuli in mice increased LHb excitatory drive onto RMTg neurons. Furthermore, optogenetic activation of this pathway promoted active, passive and conditioned behavioral avoidance. Thus, activity of LHb efferents to the midbrain is aversive but can also serve to negatively reinforce behavioral responding.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/neuro\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/abs\/nn.3145.html\">http:\/\/www.nature.com\/neuro\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/abs\/nn.3145.html <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- description --> <\/p>\n<p class='lead'>Activation of lateral habenula inputs to the ventral midbrain promotes behavioral avoidance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80868,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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