Venue: Bordeaux Biologie Santé (BBS)
Abstract
Animals’ survival depends on internal variables, such as the need to feed, drink, or reproduce. Together with external stimuli and past experiences, these variables define an animal’s state, or emotional state, that determines a repertoire of appropriate behaviors according to specific circumstances. Over the past years, tremendous progress has been made in understanding the contribution of single neurons activity to appetitive and aversive behaviors in both pavlovian or instrumental settings. However, we still have a lacunar view of how the collective activity of neurons within specific circuits contributes to the neuronal representation of specific emotional states. In this mini symposium, we bring together worldwide leading experts in the field of emotional processing that will discuss recent data related to the general neurobiological principles underlying the development of emotional states across different behavioral paradigms and brain regions.
Speakers
– Dr. Stéphanie Trouche (IGF CNRS UMR 5203, Montpellier, France)
“A novel neuronal circuit embedded in the amygdala-accumbens pathway for fear expression”
– Dr. Daniel Salzman (Columbia University, New York, USA)
The representational geometry of emotional states in basolateral amygdala
– Dr. Shauna Parkes (INCIA UMR 5287, Bordeaux, France)
“Relative value encoding across species”
– Dr. Andreas Luthi (FMI Basel, Switzerland)
“Adaptive coding of value and goal directed behavior in the amygdala”
Organized by
- Cyril Herry (Neurocentre Magendie)
- Anass El Azraoui (IINS)