Professor Christopher Dayas, NSW : "Subcortical control of motivated behaviour"
Speaker:
Professor Christopher Dayas
School of Biomedical Science and Pharmacy
The University of Newcastle, NSW
Title: "Subcortical control of motivated behaviour"
Abstraact:
Our work is focused on understanding how hypothalamic peptide systems promote and sustain reward seeking behaviour under stress and after drug exposure.
We are interested in understanding the molecular and cellular challenges that promote these changes and how these adaptations might precipitate the development of disorders of motivation. These studies identified a number of key adaptations onto lateral hypothalamic circuits, including those expressing orexin, and their possible projections to ‘traditional’ parts of the reward circuit. More recent work has started to explore how hypothalamic circuits engage with brain regions involved in decision making as well as the molecular adaptations responsible for the transition to inflexible behavioural responding.
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