Running title: BA-NAc neurons and social stimulus processing
Giulia Poggia *, Giorgio Bergaminia,
Redas Dulinskasa,
Lorraine Madura, b,
Alexandra Gretera, Christian
Ineichena, Amael Dagostinoa, Diana
Kúkeľováa, Hannes Sigrista, Klaus D.
Bornemannc, Bastian Hengererc,
Christopher R. Prycea, b *
a. Preclinical Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and
Psychosomatics, Psychiatric University Hospital Zürich (PUK) and
University of Zurich (UZH), Zurich, Switzerland
b. Zurich Neuroscience Center, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich,
Zurich, Switzerland
c. CNS Diseases Research, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG,
Biberach, Germany
*Corresponding authors: Dr. Giulia Poggi and Prof. Christopher Pryce,
PLaTRAD, DPPP, Psychiatric University Hospital Zürich (PUK) and
University of Zurich (UZH), August Forel-Strasse 7, CH-8008 Zurich,
Switzerland.
E-mail address: christopher.pryce@bli.uzh.ch (C. R. Pryce).
Acknowledgments : This research was funded by the Swiss National
Science Foundation (31003A_179381 to C.R.P.) and by a
Boehringer-Ingelheim Innocentive grant (Mouse models of apathy and
helplessness, to C.R.P.). We are grateful to Gisep Bazzell, Björn Henz
and Alex Osei for animal care, and to the Center for Microscopy and
Image Analysis, University of Zurich, for assistance and support.
Conflict of interest: K.D. Bornemann and Bastian Hengerer are
employees of Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma AG.