H. Okamoto

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• The habenulo-raphe serotonergic circuit encodes an aversive expectation value essential for adaptive active avoidance of danger
• Hyperactivation of the habenula as a link between depression and sleep disturbance
• Imaging of neural ensemble for the retrieval of a learned behavioral program
• Fear and anxiety regulation by conserved affective circuits
• The synchronous activity of lateral habenular neurons is essential for regulating hippocampal theta oscillation
• Molecular characterization of the subnuclei in rat habenula
• Phylogeny and ontogeny of the habenular structure
• The habenula is crucial for experience-dependent modification of fear responses in zebrafish
• Identification of the zebrafish ventral habenula as a homolog of the mammalian lateral habenula
• Development of the mouse amygdala as revealed by enhanced green fluorescent protein gene transfer by means of in utero electroporation
• Transgenic technology for visualization and manipulation of the neural circuits controlling behavior in zebrafish
• Genetic single-cell mosaic analysis implicates ephrinB2 reverse signaling in projections from the posterior tectum to the hindbrain in zebrafish
• Visualization of two distinct classes of neurons by gad2 and zic1 promoter/enhancer elements in the dorsal hindbrain of developing zebrafish reveals neuronal connectivity related to the auditory and lateral line systems
• Temporally regulated asymmetric neurogenesis causes left-right difference in the zebrafish habenular structures
• Laterotopic representation of left-right information onto the dorso-ventral axis of a zebrafish midbrain target nucleus