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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2026

Sex and Stress Govern the Function and Innervation of a Basolateral Amygdala to Nucleus Accumbens Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone/GABA-Expressing Projection.

Lara Taniguchi, Caitlin M Goodpaster, Yuncai Chen, Gregory B de Carvalho, Matthew T Birnie, Anamika Paul, Amanda Chiang, Lulu Y Chen, Tallie Z Baram, Laura A DeNardo

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Nucleus accumbens medial shell D1 and D2 medium spiny neurons signal the valence of conditioned stimuli in a sex-dependent manner.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Lara TaniguchiDepartments of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697.ORCID 0000-0002-2196-0110
Caitlin M GoodpasterUCLA Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095.ORCID 0000-0002-2456-9010
Yuncai ChenPediatrics, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697.
Gregory B de CarvalhoDepartments of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697.ORCID 0000-0002-9179-7697
Matthew T BirniePediatrics, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697.ORCID 0000-0003-3964-5247
Anamika PaulDepartments of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697.
Amanda ChiangDepartments of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697.
Lulu Y ChenDepartments of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697.ORCID 0000-0002-8873-3481
Tallie Z BaramDepartments of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697 tallie@uci.edu ldenardo@ucla.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-0771-8616
Laura A DeNardoDepartment of Physiology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 tallie@uci.edu ldenardo@ucla.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-7607-4773

Funding

Structural & Network-Function Correlates of Fragmented Early-Life Across SpeciesP50MH096889 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI SANDMAN, CURT ALAN · 2013 to 2023
$25.4M
Dynamic epigenomic landscape of opioid abuse following early-life adversityU01DA053826 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI Tallie Z. Baram, CHRISTIE D FOWLER · 2022 to 2026
$3.4M
Prefrontal circuits underlying the maturation of learned avoidanceR01MH127214 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Laura Anne DeNardo · 2022 to 2026
$2.3M
On circuit mechanisms of reward behaviors after early-life adversityRF1MH132680 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI BARAM, TALLIE Z., CHEN, YUNCAI · 2025 to 2025
$2.1M
On circuit mechanisms of reward behaviors after early-life adversityR01MH132680 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI BARAM, TALLIE Z., CHEN, YUNCAI · 2023 to 2024
$1.3M
NIDA NIH HHS U01 DA053826NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH096889NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH127214NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH132680NIMH NIH HHS RF1 MH132680
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Motivated behaviors are executed by refined brain circuits. Early-life adversity (ELA) is a risk for human affective disorders involving dysregulated reward behaviors. In mice, ELA causes anhedonia-like behaviors in males and augmented reward motivation in females, indicating sex-dependent disruption of reward circuit operations. We recently identified a long-range corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH)/GABA-expressing projection from the basolateral amygdala (BLA) to the nucleus accumbens (NAc) that mediates reward-seeking deficits in adult ELA males-but not females. To probe the sex-specific role of this projection in reward behaviors, adult male and female CRH-Cre mice raised in control or ELA conditions received excitatory or inhibitory Cre-dependent DREADDs in the BLA and clozapine-

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Basolateral Nuclear ComplexCorticotropin-Releasing Hormonegamma-Aminobutyric AcidNucleus AccumbensSex CharacteristicsStress, PsychologicalAnimalsFemaleMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicNeural PathwaysRewardCorticotropin-Releasing Hormonegamma-Aminobutyric Acidamygdalabrain clearingearly-life adversitynucleus accumbenssex differencesstress

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PMID41271439
PMCPMC12809659

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