Neural Circuits of Innate Behaviors

Contents
Contributors
Chapter 1: Neural Circuits Underlying Innate Fear
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 Animal Studies
		1.2.1 Retinal Ganglion Cells That Detect Looming Signals
		1.2.2 Brain Circuits That Mediate Looming-Evoked Fear Responses in Mice
	1.3 Human Studies
	References
Chapter 2: Neurobiology and Neural Circuits of Aggression
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Experimental Paradigms to Explore Aggression in Rodents
	2.3 Neuroendocrinology of Aggression
	2.4 Neurotransmitter Systems in Aggression
	2.5 Neurocircuitry of Aggressive Behavior
		2.5.1 Amygdala
		2.5.2 Hypothalamus
		2.5.3 Prefrontal Cortex
		2.5.4 Lateral Septum
		2.5.5 Other Brain Areas
		2.5.6 Synthesis
	2.6 Translational Implications
	References
Chapter 3: Neural Regulation of Feeding Behavior
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Homeostatic Feeding
		3.2.1 Sensing Metabolic State
		3.2.2 Foraging and Hunting for Food
		3.2.3 Consuming Food
		3.2.4 Termination of Feeding
	3.3 Hedonic Feeding
	3.4 Conclusion
	References
4: Neural Circuits for Reward
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Dopamine and Innate Behavior
	4.3 Medium Spiny Neurons in Striatum and Innate Behavior
	4.4 Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) Neurons and Innate Behavior
	4.5 Prefrontal Cortex and Innate Behavior
	4.6 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Neuronal Response and Behavioral Modulation in Social Interactions
	5.1 Neuronal Response in Social Behavior
		5.1.1 Neuronal Response in Social Interaction
			5.1.1.1 Medial Prefrontal Cortex
			5.1.1.2 Amygdala
			5.1.1.3 Ventral Tegmental Area
		5.1.2 Neuronal Response in Aggression
			5.1.2.1 Hypothalamus
		5.1.3 Neuronal Response in Dominance
			5.1.3.1 mPFC
		5.1.4 Neuronal Response in Social Defeat
		5.1.5 Neuronal Response in Social Memory
			5.1.5.1 Hippocampus
	5.2 Neural Circuit Manipulation and Social Behavior
		5.2.1 Social Interaction
			5.2.1.1 mPFC
			5.2.1.2 VTA
			5.2.1.3 Amygdala
		5.2.2 Social Memory
			5.2.2.1 Hippocampus
		5.2.3 Dominance Behavior
			5.2.3.1 mPFC
		5.2.4 Aggression
			5.2.4.1 Hypothalamus
	References
Chapter 6: Neural Circuit Mechanisms That Underlie Parental Care
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Factors That Influence the Display of Parental Behaviors
		6.2.1 Olfactory and Auditory Cues Emitted by Pups
		6.2.2 Environmental Stressors
		6.2.3 Reproductive Status
	6.3 Brain Areas Involved in Parental Care
		6.3.1 Main Olfactory Epithelium and Vomeronasal Organ (MOE and VNO)
		6.3.2 Auditory Cortex
		6.3.3 Medial Amygdala (MeA)
		6.3.4 Medial Preoptic Area (mPOA)
			6.3.4.1 mPOA Galanin+ Neurons
			6.3.4.2 mPOA Esr1+ Neurons
			6.3.4.3 mPOA Vgat+ Neurons
		6.3.5 Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA)
		6.3.6 Periaqueductal Gray (PAG)
		6.3.7 Paraventricular Nucleus of the Hypothalamus (PVN)
		6.3.8 Medial Prefrontal Cortex (mPFC)
		6.3.9 Ventrolateral Division of the Ventromedial Hypothalamus (VMHvl)
	6.4 Cross Talk Between Neural Control of Parental Care and Other Innate Behaviors
		6.4.1 Overlaps Between Neural Control of Paternal Care and Other Social Behaviors
		6.4.2 Reciprocal Antagonisms Between Neural Control of Maternal Care and Feeding
	6.5 Toward a Neural Circuit Mechanism for Parental Care
	6.6 Conclusion and Perspective
	References
Chapter 7: Spatial Navigation
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Role of the Hippocampus in Three Navigation Strategies
		7.2.1 Role of the Hippocampus in Path Integration
		7.2.2 Role of the Hippocampus in the S-R Strategy
		7.2.3 Role of the Hippocampus in Map-Based Navigation
	7.3 Spatially Specific Activity in the Hippocampus and the Related Limbic Circuits
		7.3.1 Place Cells
		7.3.2 Grid Cells
		7.3.3 Head Direction Cells
		7.3.4 The Relationship of Spatial Encoding by Place Cells, Grid Cells, and HD Cells
			7.3.4.1 Place Cells Versus Grid Cells
			7.3.4.2 HD Cells Versus Place Cells and Grid Cells
		7.3.5 Shared Properties of Place Cells, Grid Cells, and HD Cells
	7.4 Allocentric Space Perception Is Behind All the Spatially Specific Firing Patterns
		7.4.1 Neural Substrate of the Allocentric Space Perception
		7.4.2 Path Integration Is the Allocentric Space Perception in Mammals Provided with Idiothetic Inputs
		7.4.3 Allocentric Space Perception in Place Field Repetition
		7.4.4 Spatial and Nonspatial Information Processing in the Hippocampal Pathway
	7.5 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8: Neural Circuits for Sleep-Wake Regulation
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 BF Subregions and Cholinergic Neurons Functions in Wakefulness Regulation
	8.3 The Local Microcirculation of BF
	8.4 Afferents to BF Cholinergic Neurons in Mediating Arousal
		8.4.1 Monoaminergic Effects via BF Cholinergic Neurons on Arousal
		8.4.2 Lateral Hypothalamus Orexinergic Inputs to the BF Cholinergic Neurons
		8.4.3 LDT/PPT Afferents to the BF Cholinergic Neurons
		8.4.4 Glutamatergic Afferents to the BF Cholinergic Neurons in Mediating Arousal
	8.5 Interlink BF Cholinergic Systems Between Sleep-Wake Cycle and General Anesthesia
	References