ReviewFrontiers in neuroendocrinology2018
Thalamic integration of social stimuli regulating parental behavior and the oxytocin system.
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- Large-Scale Neuroimaging and Genetic Analyses of the Human Thalamus in Loneliness.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2026Article
- Experience-dependent modulation of prosocial touch in mice.iScience · 2026Article
- Neuroendocrine Regulation and Neural Circuitry of Parenthood: Integrating Neuropeptides, Brain Receptors, and Maternal Behavior.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- The mouse posterior insular cortex encodes expressive and receptive aspects of courtship vocalizations.Cell reports · 2025Article
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- Maternally activated connections of the ventral lateral septum reveal input from the posterior intralaminar thalamus.Brain structure & function · 2025Article
- Neuropeptide TIP39 as a pluripotent brain molecule and its potential functions in postpartum depression.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Review
- A Cortical Site that Encodes Vocal Expression and Reception.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- Melanocortin agonism in a social context selectively activates nucleus accumbens in an oxytocin-dependent manner.Neuropharmacology · 2024Article
- Peripheral oxytocin levels are linked to hypothalamic gray matter volume in autistic adults: a cross-sectional secondary data analysis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Social Interaction Elicits Activity in Glutamatergic Neurons in the Posterior Intralaminar Complex of the Thalamus.Biological psychiatry · 2024Article
- Oxytocin Receptor-Expressing Neurons in the Medial Preoptic Area Are Essential for Lactation, whereas Those in the Lateral Septum Are Not Critical for Maternal Behavior.Neuroendocrinology · 2024Article
- Comparison of the connectivity of the posterior intralaminar thalamic nucleus and peripeduncular nucleus in rats and mice.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2024Article
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- Neural mechanisms of comforting: Prosocial touch and stress buffering.Hormones and behavior · 2023Review
- Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Social Behavior: From Neural Circuits to Clinical Opportunities.Endocrinology · 2022Review
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- Oxytocin, Neural Plasticity, and Social Behavior.Annual review of neuroscience · 2021Review
- Oxytocinergic Feedback Circuitries: An Anatomical Basis for Neuromodulation of Social Behaviors.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2021Article
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Abstract
Critically important components of the maternal neural circuit in the preoptic area robustly activated by suckling were recently identified. In turn, suckling also contributes to hormonal adaptations to motherhood, which includes oxytocin release and consequent milk ejection. Other reproductive or social stimuli can also trigger the release of oxytocin centrally, influencing parental or social behaviors. However, the neuronal pathways that transfer suckling and other somatosensory stimuli to the preoptic area and oxytocin neurons have been poorly characterized. Recently, a relay center of suckling was determined and characterized in the posterior intralaminar complex of the thalamus (PIL). Its neurons containing tuberoinfundibular peptide 39 project to both the preoptic area and oxytocin neurons in the hypothalamus. The present review argues that the PIL is a major relay nucleus conveying somatosensory information supporting maternal behavior and oxytocin release in mothers, and may be involved more generally in social cue evoked oxytocin release, too.
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