Team
Sebastiano Bariselli: Neurocircuits of Care and Vulnerability
We explore how neural circuits regulate social behavior, caregiving, and resilience across individuals and generations. Using cellular and circuit-level electrophysiology, in vivo imaging, and behavioral analysis, we investigate how these systems support adaptive behavior and how their disruption contributes to vulnerability to neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders.
Selected publications
Neuropsychopharmacology
Gestational ethanol exposure impairs motor skills in female mice through dysregulated striatal dopamine and acetylcholine function.
Front Neurosci
Postnatal ethanol exposure impairs social behavior and operant extinction in the adult female mouse offspring.
Biol Psychiatry
Corticostriatal Circuit Models of Cognitive Impairments Induced by Fetal Exposure to Alcohol.
Nat Commun
Orbitofrontal-striatal potentiation underlies cocaine-induced hyperactivity.
Nat Commun
Role of VTA dopamine neurons and neuroligin 3 in sociability traits related to nonfamiliar conspecific interaction.
Nat Neurosci
SHANK3 controls maturation of social reward circuits in the VTA.
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