Neural systems for risk assessment, a biomarker for anxiety

• Grant number: 20/06849-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: September 01, 2020
• End date: September 30, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Morphology - Anatomy
• Principal Investigator: Dixie Caroline Blanchard
• Grantee: Miguel Antonio Xavier de Lima
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 17/12881-2 - Neural systems for risk assessment, a biomarker for anxiety, AP.SPEC

Abstract

In this plan, the appointed researcher will conduct the hodological study on the Edinger-Westphal nucleus and Suproculomotor region. The results of our tract-tracingstudies for the EWcp and SOM will provide important insights to understand theirputative functional roles, which will be investigated, as the second part of this project, with loss of function experiments using DREADD inactivation of the EWcp and SOM. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BINDI, RICARDO P.; GUIMARAES, CIBELE C.; DE OLIVEIRA, AMANDA R.; MELLEU, FERNANDO F.; DE LIMA, MIGUEL A. X.; BALDO, MARCUS V. C.; MOTTA, SIMONE C.; CANTERAS, NEWTON S.. Anatomical and functional study of the cuneiform nucleus: A critical site to organize innate defensive behaviors. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, v. N/A, p. 17-pg., 2023-01-06. (18/00576-3, 16/18667-0, 20/06849-1, 18/25857-5, 14/05432-9)