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Prof. Robert Froemke (New York University)
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Created by Stephanie Schimmer for the Clinical Neuroanatomy Seminars youtube channel. Original contents published in Encyclopedia of the Human Brain (Second Edition)

Compartmental Neuropeptide Release Measured Using a New Oxytocin Sensor
_{Tongrui Qian, Huan Wang, Peng Wang, Lan Geng, Long Mei, Takuya Osakada, YanTang,}_{Alan Kania, Valery Grinevich,}_{Ron Stoop, Dayu Lin, Minmin Luo, Yulong Li}
Altered PVN-to-CA2 hippocampal oxytocin pathway and reduced number of oxytocin-receptor expressing astrocytes in heart failure rats
_{Ferdinand Althammer, Ranjan K. Roy,}_{Arthur Lefevre}_{, Rami Najjar, Kai Schoenig, Dusan Bartsch,}_{Marina Eliava,}_{Rafaela Feresin, Elizabeth Hammock, Anne Z. Murphy, Alexandre Charlet,}_{Valery Grinevich,}_{Javier E. Stern}
A thalamo-preoptic pathway promoting social touch
_{Dávid Keller, Tamás Láng, Melinda Cservenák, Gina Puska, János Barna, Veronika Csillag, Imre Farkas, Dóra Zelena, Fanni Dóra, Lara Barteczko, Ted B. Usdin, Miklós Palkovits, Mazahir T. Hasan,}_{Valery Grinevich}_{, Arpád Dobolyi}
A novel analgesic pathway from parvocellular oxytocin neurons to the periaqueductal gray
_{Mai Iwasaki,}_{Arthur Lefevre,}_{Ferdinand Althammer, Olga Łąpieś, Louis Hilfiger, Damien Kerspern, Meggane Melchior,}_{Stephanie Küppers, Quirin Krablicher, Ryan Patwell,}_{Sabine C Herpertz, Beate Ditzen, Kai Schönig, Dusan Bartsch, Javier E.Stern, Pascal Darbon,}_{Valery Grinevich,}_{Alexandre Charlet}

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