Host: Society for Neuroscience
Start Date: Nov 04, 2018
Time: 5:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Location: SDCC Ballroom 20 (San Diego, CA)
Description: Dr. Catherine Dulac (co-chair of the NIH ACD BRAIN Initiative Working Group 2.0) will be speaking at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting. Summary: Social interactions are essential for animals to reproduce, defend their territory, and raise their young. This lecture will describe new data aimed at deciphering the identity and functioning principles of neural circuits underlying various social behaviors, with an emphasis on a particularly important form of social interaction: parental care. This lecture will discuss how these findings open new avenues to deconstruct the neural bases of maternal and paternal behaviors and may help to further understanding of variations in the neural control of parenting in different animal species.