Anne Pierce
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Anne Pierce
@annefpierce
Cuban American neuroscientist using neural interfaces to investigate therapies for neurological disorders in the NERD Lab led by Azadeh Yazdan.


Excited to share our latest work out in Current Bio led by @annefpierce . We found dopamine is required for seeking out social interaction in monogamous voles, and that a pair bonded partner elicits greater accumbal dopamine release than does a stranger. authors.elsevier.com/a/1iPzr3QW8S2T…



Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis GABA neurons are necessary for changes in foraging behavior following an innate threat biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

We won’t be at SFN but you can see what we’ve been up to with our preprint that dropped today! @annefpierce used GrabDA (from @yulonglilab) to ask whether the opportunity to access different voles corresponds to diff in dopamine release. Spoiler! Pair bond partner > unknown vole















