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… produce learning and memory, perception, consciousness, or behavior, or model how those are altered by disease. For … chemicals such as dopamine or serotonin affect behavior, cell by cell and brain-wide. These advantages make C. elegans a tractable model of the brain-behavior connection, but in no way an easy or trivial one. …

… so researchers need to truly understand what the rodents’ behavior is telling them during experiments. In a new study … MIT researchers deciphered some initially mystifying mouse behavior, yielding new ideas about how mice think and a … whether left or right turns were being rewarded. Mouse behavior on the task, even after days, varied widely but it …

… have neurons similar to our own that generate their behavior,” said Weissbourd, a faculty member in MIT’s … enough new neurons had taken their place that the folding behavior was restored. Weissbourd’s studies will also seek to … the destruction of a whole major neural network and the behavior it produces. “We were studying the neural control of …

… and the body has important impacts on mental health and behavior neuroimmunology Neuroimmune interactions … and the body has important impacts on mental health and behavior When Associate Professor Myriam Heiman began … interact to influence brain function, disorders and social behavior, Choi has joined the vanguard of a relatively new …

… from mating with others that appear to be sick amygdala behavior social behavior https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03413-6 … the brain circuit responsible for this distancing behavior. In a study that explores how otherwise powerful …

… brain region in mice modeling autism, improved social behavior and reduced repetitive behaviors. The study in … including the composition of gut bacteria that shape the behavior of immune cells, that might encourage greater … all familiar, for instance, with how radically our mood, behavior and appetite change when we have a bad cold or the …

… system influences neurological development and social behavior. Photo by M. Scott Brauer. Choi hopes that this line … lead to autism-like symptoms such as repetitive behavior and impaired sociability, which can be reversed by … of where one’s own body is in space — influences social behavior. “Proprioception is really all about yourself, but …