Anita Autry

Excited to share our new Hormones and Behavior paper!! We find that mouse maternal mood is susceptible to a pharmacological (chronic cort) and ethological (chronic variable) stress, while pup retrieval is resistant to these stressors. Congrats to the team 🎉
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7M4,QxXs...

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve."
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Sex-specific hypothalamic neural projection activity drives caregiving in mice - Nature Communications Caregiving behavior is critical for infant survival. Here we show that projections from galanin neurons of medial preoptic area to perifornical area of hypothalamus are anatomically similar between ma...

Excited to share our newest publication as my first post on BlueSky!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...