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Dr. Xiaohong Xu

Dr. Xiaohong Xu

Principal Investigator
Insititute of Neuroscience
Chinese Academy of Sciences
EXTERNAL PROFILELAB / RESEARCH
BioGRAPHY

Dr. Xu Xiaohong got her bachelor degree in 2000 from Peking University, and received her Ph.D degree from Case Western Reserve University in 2006. From 2006 to 2012, she was a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Nirao Shah's lab at California University. She joined ION in November 2012 as a Principal Investigator and the Head of the Laboratory of Instinctive Behaviour.

Speaker's Schedule

Dec 21, 2022
15:20 - 15:40
Hangzhou Talk #17
A hippocampal-hypothalamic circuit essential for anxiety-related behavioral avoidance
Behavioral observations suggest a connection between anxiety and predator defense, but the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. Here we examine the role of the anterior hypothalamic nucleus (AHN), a node in the predator defense network, in anxiety-like behaviors. We find that convergent activation of AHNVgat+ neurons serves as a shared mechanism between anxiety and predator defense to promote behavioral avoidance.
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