Prefrontal and subcortical c-Fos mapping of reward responses across competitive and social contexts

De Paula Cunha Almeida C, Cum M, Illescas-Huerta E, Chambers A, Ye C, Shah A, Jain A, Li A, Padilla-Coreano N (2025) eNeuro, 12(11), doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0158-25.2025.

How dopamine guides our social world

Padilla-Coreano N, Martínez-Rivera FJ (2025) Pharmacological Reviews, 77(5), doi: 10.1016/j.pharmr.2025.100085.

Separable dorsal raphe dopamine projections mimic the facets of loneliness-like state

Lee C, Matthews G, Lemieux M, Wasserlein E, Borio M, Miranda R, Keyes L, Schneider G, Jia C, Tran A, Aloboudi F, Chan M, Peroni E, Pereira G, Lopez-Moraga A, Palle A, Kimchi E, Padilla-Coreano N, Whicmann R, Tye K (2025) eLife, doi: 10.1101/2025.02.03.636224.

A multiparadigm approach to characterize dominance behaviors in CD1 and C57BL6 male mice

Cum M, Santiago Pérez JS, Iwata RL, Lopez N, Higgs A, Li A, Ye C, Wangia E, Wright ES, García Restrepo C, Padilla-Coreano N (2024) eNeuro, 11(11), doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0342-24.2024.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of how social memory is studied

Cum M, Pérez JS, Wangia E, Lopez N, Wright ES, Iwata RL, Li A, Chambers AR, Padilla-Coreano N (2024) Scientific Reports, doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-52277-z. 

AlphaTracker: a multi-animal tracking and behavioral analysis tool

Chen Z, Zhang R, Fang HS, Zhang YE, Bal A, Zhou H, Rock RR, Padilla-Coreano N, Keyes LR, Zhu H, Li YL, Komiyama T, Tye KM, Lu C (2023) Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1111908.

How loss of social status affects the brain

Harris AZ & Padilla-Coreano N (2023) Nature News and Views, doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00602-3. 

For neuroscience, social history matters

George A, Padilla-Coreano N, and Opendak M (2023) Neuropsychopharmacology, doi: 10.1038/s41386-023-01566-8.

Disentangled multi-subject and social behavioral representations through a constrained subspace variational autoencoder (CS-VAE)

Yi D, Musall S, Churchland A, Padilla-Coreano N, and Saxen S (2023) bioRxiv [preprint], doi: 10.1101/2022.09.01.506091.

Neurotensin orchestrates valence assignment in the amygdala

Li H, Namburi P, Olson JM, Borio M, Lemieux ME, Beyeler A, Calhoon GG, Hitora-Imamura N, Coley AA, Libster A, Bal A, Jin X, Wang H, Jia C, Choudhury SR, Shi X, Felix-Ortiz AC, de la Fuente V, Barth VP, King HO, Izadmehr EM, Revanna JS, Batra K, Fischer KB, Keyes LR, Padilla-Coreano N, Siciliano CA, McCullough KM, Wichmann R, Ressler KJ, Fiete IR, Zhang F, Li Y, and Tye KM (2022) Nature 608, 586–592, doi: 10.1038/s41583-022-00609-1.

Lessons from the stories of women in neuroscience

Sibener LJ, Kirchgessner MA, Steiner S, Santiago C, Cassataro D, Rossa M, Profaci CP, and Padilla-Coreano N (2022) Journal of Neuroscience, 42 (24) 4769-4773, doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0536-22.2022.

Dynamic influences on the neural encoding of social valence

Padilla-Coreano, N, Tye, KM, and Zelikowsky (2022) Nature Reviews Neuroscience 23, 535–550, doi: 10.1038/s41583-022-00609-1.

Cortical ensembles orchestrate social competition through hypothalamic outputs

N Padilla-Coreano, K Batra, M Patarino, Z Chen, RR Rock, R Zhang, SB Hausmann, JC Weddington, R Patel, YE Zhang, H Fang, S Mishra, DO LeDuke, J Revanna, H Li, M Borio, R Pamintuan, A Bal, LR Keyes, A Libster, R Wichmann, F Mills, FH Taschbach, GA Matthews, JP Curley, IR Fiete, C Lu & KM Tye (2022) Nature, doi 10.1038/s41586-022-04507-5.

Neural systems that facilitate the representation of social rank

Dwortz MF, Curley JP, Tye KM, and Padilla-Coreano N (2022) Philosophical Transactionsof the Royal Society B, doi 10.1098/rstb.2020.0444.

Separable dorsal raphe dopamine projections mediate sociability and valence

Tye K, Matthews G, Lemieux M, Brewer E, Miranda R, Borio M, Peroni E, Keyes L, Pereira G, Moraga AL, Kimchi E, Padilla-Coreano N, Wichmann R, Palle A, and Lee C (2021) Research Square [preprint], doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1025403/v1.

Valence processing in the PFC: Reconciling circuit-level and systems-level views

Coley AA, Padilla-Coreano N, Patel R, and Tye KM (2021). International Review of Neurobiology, doi: 10.1016/bs.irn.2020.12.002.

Differential synaptic dynamics and circuit connectivity of hippocampal and thalamic inputs to the prefrontal cortex

Canetta S, Teboul E, Holt E, Bolkan SS, Padilla-Coreano N, Gordon JA, Harrison NL, and Kellendonk C (2020). Cerebral Cortex Communications, doi: 10.1093/texcom/tgaa084.

The next 50 years of neuroscience

Altimus CM, Marlin BJ, Charalambakis NE, Colón-Rodriquez A, Glove EJ, Izbicki P, Johnson A, Lourenco MV, Makinson RA, McQuail J, Obeso I, Padilla-Coreano N, Wells MF, and for Training Advisory Committee (2020). The Journal of Neuroscience, doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0744-19.2019.

Hippocampal-prefrontal theta transmission regulates avoidance behavior

Padilla-Coreano N, Canetta S, Mikofsky RM, Alway E, Passecker J, Myroshnychenko MV, Garcia-Garcia AL, Warren R, Teboul E, Blackman DR, Morton MP, Hupalo S, Tye KM, Kellendonk C, Kupferschmidt DA, and Gordon JA (2019). Neuron, doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.08.006.

Dopamine enhances signal-to-noise ratio incortical-brainstem encoding of aversive stimuli

Vander Weele CM, Siciliano CA, Matthews GA, Namburi P, Izadmehr EM, Espinel IC, Nieh EH, Schut EHS, Padilla-Coreano N, Burgos-Robles A, Chang CJ, Kimchi EY, Beyeler A, Wichmann R, Wildes CP, and Tye KM (2018). Nature, doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0682-1.