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… he envisaged a microscope capable of tracking every behavior and the activity of every neuron in the simple brain … that do have surged to the vanguard. Tracking activity and behavior Flavell’s dream to image all behaviors and the whole … powerful enough to automatically track worm movement and behavior and also to spot the glowing cells in images. A …

… whether it was indeed responsible for a particular feeding behavior, he found that within a week it had completely … of techniques such as imaging neural activity during behavior, sequencing gene expression cell by cell, and … to predict how anatomy helps give rise to function and behavior. And given that new neurons are being born, …

… microscope, in both cases, the researchers could see why behavior got worse. For lack of proper astrocyte function, … a transient norepinephrine signal, the mice adjusted their behavior to reflect the correction on the next go-round. “But … they are actually crucial for this very important behavior of reinforcement learning.” Astrocytes gleam green …

… genetic control and visibility into neural activity and behavior, MIT scientists map out chemical’s role in behavior serotonin C. elegans Neuromodulators neuromodulation … genetic control and visibility into neural activity and behavior, MIT scientists map out chemical’s role in behavior …

… 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 …

… 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 …