Herry’s team has recently revealed the interdependency of two brain regions, the basolateral amygdala and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, in e xcessive avoidance while no significant danger .

Optogenetic experiment has been used to bidirectionally manipulate the VTA-NAc and VTA-Amg pathways to dissociate their contributions to anxiety-like behavior after nicotine injections. They have been shown that the inhibition of VTA-Amg DA neurons mediates anxiety-like behavior, while their activation prevents the anxiogenic effects of nicotine. Highlights of the paper: Nicotine injection...

Cota’s team has identified the hypothalamic TGR5 signaling as a key mediator of a top-down neural mechanism that counteracts diet-induced obesity. The highlights of the paper are: Diet-induced obesity induces changes in the hypothalamic Bile Acids (BA)- Takeda G protein-coupled receptor 5 (TGR5) system Central TGR5 agonism reduces obesity by activating the sympathetic nervous system Hypothalamic...

Abrous’s team, in collaboration with Cyril Herry, Véronique Deroche, and Daniela Cota, has recently revealed the first evidence of an adolescence and adulthood neurogenesis in the hippocampal spatial memory. The combination of functional imaging, retroviral and optogenetic approaches to tag and silence dentate granule neurons (DGNs) has pointed out that only the neurons born during adolescence,...

With 5200 citations over 2008-2018, and many publications in the top 1% of the most cited in his field, Dr Cyril Herry is now a member of the closed club of  the most influent researchers as defined by  the Web of Science Group.