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Linda Amarante

Allen Institute
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What, if anything, is rodent prefrontal cortex?

M Laubach, LM Amarante, K Swanson, SR White - eneuro, 2018 - eneuro.org
Prefrontal cortex (PFC) means different things to different people. In recent years, there has
been a major increase in publications on the PFC, especially using mice. However, …

The future is open: open-source tools for behavioral neuroscience research

SR White, LM Amarante, AV Kravitz, M Laubach - eneuro, 2019 - eneuro.org
Over the past decade, there has been an explosion in the use of new neurobiological tools
for measuring and controlling brain cell activity. Recent developments in optogenetics, …

Medial frontal theta is entrained to rewarded actions

LM Amarante, MS Caetano… - Journal of Neuroscience, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
Rodents lick to consume fluids. The reward value of ingested fluids is likely to be encoded
by neuronal activity entrained to the lick cycle. Here, we investigated relationships between …

An open source syringe pump controller for fluid delivery of multiple volumes

LM Amarante, J Newport, M Mitchell, J Wilson… - eneuro, 2019 - eneuro.org
Syringe pumps are a necessary piece of laboratory equipment that are used for fluid delivery
in behavioral neuroscience laboratories. Many experiments provide rodents and primates …

[HTML][HTML] The medial prefrontal cortex is crucial for the maintenance of persistent licking and the expression of incentive contrast

…, LM Amarante, B Liu, D Weikum, M Laubach - Frontiers in integrative …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
We examined the role of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in reward processing and the
control of consummatory behavior. Rats were trained in an operant licking procedure in …

Coherent theta activity in the medial and orbital frontal cortices encodes reward value

LM Amarante, M Laubach - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
This study examined how the medial frontal (MFC) and orbital frontal (OFC) cortices process
reward information. We simultaneously recorded local field potentials in the two areas as …

[HTML][HTML] Cholinergic and ghrelinergic receptors and KCNQ channels in the medial PFC regulate the expression of palatability

…, LM Amarante, K Swanson, M Laubach - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is a key brain region for the control of consummatory
behavior. Neuronal activity in this area is modulated when rats initiate consummatory licking …

Reward signaling by the rodent medial frontal cortex

M Laubach, LM Amarante, MS Caetano… - International Review of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The anatomical relevance and functional significance of medial parts of the rodent frontal
cortex have been intensely debated over the modern history of neuroscience. Early studies …

[PDF][PDF] Rhythmic activity in the medial and orbital frontal cortices tracks reward value and the vigor of consummatory behavior

LM Amarante, M Laubach - Biorxiv, 2020 - drive.google.com
This study examined how the medial frontal (MFC) and orbital frontal (OFC) cortices process
reward information to guide behavior. We simultaneously recorded local field potentials in …

[PDF][PDF] For better or worse: reward comparison by the ventromedial prefrontal cortex

LM Amarante, M Laubach - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
In this issue of Neuron, Strait et al. (2014) studied how neurons in the monkey ventromedial
prefrontal cortex encode value-based decisions. Neurons were commonly influenced by …