Kavli Affiliate: David Linden | Authors: Jessie Benedict, Robert H. Cudmore, David J. Linden, Diarra Oden and Aleah Spruell | Summary: Mammalian parenting is an unusually demanding commitment. How did evolution co-opt the reward system to ensure parental care? Previous work has implicated the lateral habenula (LHb), an epithalamic nucleus, as a potential intersection of […]
Continue.. The lateral habenula is required for maternal behavior in the mouse dam