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Cover for Neural Circuits of Sensorimotor Gating and Social Behavior in Nonhuman Primates

Neural Circuits of Sensorimotor Gating and Social Behavior in Nonhuman Primates

Waguespack, Hannah Fay (Georgetown University, 2022)

The nucleus accumbens (NAc) is a critical limbic-motor interface that is important for both processing reward and generating voluntary and reflexive motor outcomes. The NAc receives dense dopaminergic input from the ventral ...

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From Perception to Social Connection: Assessing Deficits and Modulation of Empathic Processes to Study Human Social Behavior

Matthews, Katherine (Georgetown University, 2021)

Perceiving and responding to the emotions of other individuals is thought to motivate adaptive social behaviors and help form strong interpersonal connections. Failure or manipulation of the empathic processes that subserve ...