Kumi O. Kuroda   Kansai Fukumitsu   Takuma Kurachi   Nami Ohmura   Yuko Shiraishi   Chihiro Yoshihara   
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2024年3月 [査読有り]
Abstract
This review consolidates current knowledge on mammalian parental care, focusing on its neural mechanisms, evolutionary origins, and derivatives. Neurobiological studies have identified specific neurons in the medial preoptic area as cruc...
Kansai Fukumitsu   Kumi O Kuroda   
Brain Nerve 75(3) 263-268 2023年3月 [招待有り]
Prolonged social isolation has been reported to be one of the risk factors for human health, equivalent to smoking cigarettes. Therefore, some developed countries have recognized prolonged social isolation as a social problem and have started to a...
Kansai Fukumitsu   Arthur J. Huang   Thomas J. McHugh   Kumi O. Kuroda   
Molecular Brain 16(1) 10-10 2023年1月 [査読有り]
Abstract
Social animals become stressed upon social isolation, proactively engaging in affiliative contacts among conspecifics after resocialization. We have previously reported that calcitonin receptor (Calcr) expressing neurons in the central p...
Kansai Fukumitsu   Misato Kaneko   Teppo Maruyama   Chihiro Yoshihara   Arthur J. Huang   Thomas J. McHugh   Shigeyoshi Itohara   Minoru Tanaka   Kumi O. Kuroda   
Nature Communications 13(1) 2022年2月 [査読有り]
Abstract
Social animals actively engage in contact with conspecifics and experience stress upon isolation. However, the neural mechanisms coordinating the sensing and seeking of social contacts are unclear. Here we report that amylin-calcitonin r...
Mammalian parental care is highly mother-biased, prompting researchers to presume its connection to female reproductive behavior and physiology, not male. However, recent findings in neurobiological studies suggest the opposite. Considering the ev...