Locus coeruleus activation transforms cortical taste representations

Will Fan, Paula To, & Natale R Sciolino.

Cell Reports (In Press)

Lateral hypothalamic GABAergic projections to the dorsal pons and lateral preoptic area in feeding, predation, and reinforcement

Yi Huang, Will Fan, Olivia Knuth, Alexander C. Jackson, & Natale R. Sciolino

bioRxiv (2026)

Stress reactivity is modulated by cannabinoid type-1 receptors in norepinephrine and epinephrine neurons in a context-dependent manner

Christopher B Engborg, Manaswani Pujar, Rahul Kanadia & Natale R Sciolino.

Neuroscience (2025)

*Image selected for the front cover of Neuroscience, Volume 585C.

Locus coeruleus dynamics are suppressed during licking and enhanced post-licking independent of taste novelty

Will Fan, Christopher B Engborg, & Natale R Sciolino.

eNeuro (2024)

Natural locus coeruleus dynamics during feeding

Natale R Sciolino, Madeleine Hsiang, Christopher Mazzone, Nicholas W Plummer, Jaisal Amin, Kathleen G Smith, Christopher McGee, Sydney A Fry, Cindy X Yang, Jeanne M Powell, Michael R Bruchas, Alexxai V Kravitz, Jesse D Cushman, Michael J Krashes, Guohong Cui, & Patricia Jensen.

Science Advances (2022)

Press Release‍ ‍, NIEHS Environmental Factor

Recombinase-dependent mouse lines for chemogenetic activation of genetically defined cell types

Natale R Sciolino*, Nicholas W Plummer*, Yu-wei Chen, Georgia A Alexander, Sabrina D Robertson, Serena M Dudek, Zoe A McElligott, & Patricia Jensen. *Co-first author

Cell Reports (2016)

Press Release, NIH Catalyst

Press Release, NIEHS Environmental Factor