Periodic Reporting for period 2 - MotivatedBehaviors (Top down regulation of motivated behaviors by lateral septal integration of cortico-hippocampal inputs)

How does cognition regulate innate “low-level” behaviors? While the cognitive functions of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus have been extensively studied, we know much less about their ability to regulate the activity of the various hypothalamic nuclei...