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SUBMITTER: Fuzesi T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4912635 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20160616
All organisms possess innate behavioural and physiological programmes that ensure survival. In order to have maximum adaptive benefit, these programmes must be sufficiently flexible to account for changes in the environment. Here we show that hypothalamic CRH neurons orchestrate an environmentally flexible repertoire of behaviours that emerge after acute stress in mice. Optical silencing of CRH neurons disrupts the organization of individual behaviours after acute stress. These behavioural patte ...[more]