About the Authors

Krisztina Monory

Affiliations Department of Physiological Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany , Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Heike Blaudzun

Affiliation Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Federico Massa

Affiliations Department of Physiological Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany , Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Nadine Kaiser

Affiliation Department of Physiological Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Thomas Lemberger

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology of the Cell I, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Günther Schütz

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology of the Cell I, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Carsten T Wotjak

Affiliation Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Beat Lutz

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: marsicano@bordeaux.inserm.fr (GM); blutz@uni-mainz.de (BL)

Affiliations Department of Physiological Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany , Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Giovanni Marsicano

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: marsicano@bordeaux.inserm.fr (GM); blutz@uni-mainz.de (BL)

Affiliations Department of Physiological Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany , U862 Institute F. Magendie, University Bordeaux 2, INSERM, Avenir Group 4, Bordeaux, France

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no financial, personal, or professional interests that could be construed to have influenced the present paper.

Author Contributions

KM participated in the design of the experiments, performed the behavioural tests, part of the ISH analysis, and wrote the manuscript. HB performed part of the ISH analysis. FM contributed to the design of the experiments and to the writing. NK participated to behavioural experiments. TL and GS generated the D1-Cre mice and contributed to the writing of the manuscript. CTW participated to the design of experiments, provided equipment and expertise for behavioural analysis, participated in the data analysis and in the writing of the manuscript. BL and GM equally supervised the entire work, generated the conditional mutants, wrote the manuscript, and share senior authorship.