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ReviewNeuroscience bulletin2015

Dissecting the hypothalamic pathways that underlie innate behaviors.

Xi Zha, Xiaohong Xu

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Review in Neuroscience bulletin, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Self-tuition as an essential design feature of the brain.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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  5. Neural circuit mechanisms that govern inter-male attack in mice.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2021
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  8. AGRP Neurons Project to the Medial Preoptic Area and Modulate Maternal Nest-Building.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Xi ZhaInstitute of Neuroscience, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China.
Xiaohong XuInstitute of Neuroscience, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China. xiaohong.xu@ion.ac.cn.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many complex behaviors that do not require learning are displayed and are termed innate. Although traditionally the subject matter of ethology, innate behaviors offer a unique entry point for neuroscientists to dissect the physiological mechanisms governing complex behaviors. Since the last century, converging evidence has implicated the hypothalamus as the central brain area that controls innate behaviors. Recent studies using cutting-edge tools have revealed that genetically-defined populations of neurons residing in distinct hypothalamic nuclei and their associated neural pathways regulate the initiation and maintenance of diverse behaviors including feeding, sleep, aggression, and parental care. Here, we review the newly-defined hypothalamic pathways that regulate each innate behavior. In addition, emerging general principles of the neural control of complex behaviors are discussed.

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InstinctAnimalsHumansHypothalamusNeural Pathwayshypothalamusinnate behaviorsneural circuitneural networkoptogenetics

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PMID26552801
PMCPMC5563731

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