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… attractive odors or avoid unappealing ones C. elegans behavior Neuromodulators neuromodulation sensory neurons … savor attractive odors or avoid unappealing ones. Animal behavior reflects a complex interplay between an animal’s …

… Cracking the code that relates brain and behavior in a simple animal August 21, 2023 Research Findings … and flexibility of its nervous system C. elegans behavior calcium imaging … the full relationship between brain activity and behavior, scientists have needed a way to map this …

… the researchers to compile information about each animal’s behavior. The team also wrote machine vision software to … for the first time a number of patterns of nematode behavior that involve the coordination of multiple motor … those candidates, such as serotonin, affected the animal’s behavior in important ways, but did not disrupt this coupling …

… identify brain circuit that drives pleasure-inducing behavior March 22, 2017 Research Findings Surprisingly, the … circuit, they report. “It’s surprising that positive-behavior-promoting subsets are so abundant, which is contrary … graduate students Joshua Kim and Xiangyu Zhang. Driving behavior The paper builds on a  study published last year  in …

… how environment and state are integrated to control behavior September 6, 2022 Research Findings A new study … converge in an olfactory neuron to guide food-seeking behavior Internal states sensory neurons … converge in an olfactory neuron to guide food-seeking behavior Say you live across from a bakery. Sometimes you are …