Akiyuki Watarai

Pup exposure facilitates retrieving behavior via the oxytocin neural system in female mice

Shota Okabe, Yousuke Tsuneoka, Aki Takahashi et al. · Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2017 · 82 citations

Life Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Neuroscience +14

Disrupted social memory ensembles in the ventral hippocampus underlie social amnesia in autism-associated Shank3 mutant mice

Kentaro Tao, Myung Hee Chung, Akiyuki Watarai et al. · Molecular Psychiatry · 2022 · 79 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +17

Responses to pup vocalizations in subordinate naked mole-rats are induced by estradiol ingested through coprophagy of queen’s feces

Akiyuki Watarai, Natsuki Arai, Shingo Miyawaki et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2018 · 60 citations · Full text

Medicine, Animal Sciences, Endocrinology +11

Gonadal steroid hormone secretion during the juvenile period depends on host‐specific microbiota and contributes to the development of odor preference

Itsuka Kamimura, Akiyuki Watarai, Takuma Takamura et al. · Developmental Psychobiology · 2019 · 43 citations

Life Sciences, Endocrinology, Microbiology +12

The blockade of oxytocin receptors in the paraventricular thalamus reduces maternal crouching behavior over pups in lactating mice

Akiyuki Watarai, Satoko Tsutaki, Katsuhiko Nishimori et al. · Neuroscience Letters · 2020 · 27 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +14