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… an inflammatory way that leads to a degradation of neural circuit connections called synapses. Mouse brain … amygdala highlights the hormone TRH, which mediates a circuit that prevents mating when a partner smells sick. In 2021 Choi’s lab also found a specific brain circuit that enforces a form of social distancing. Led by …

… the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for her project Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Social Homeostasis in Individuals and … employed by artificial intelligence research, and powerful circuit dissection approaches, Tye’s laboratory seeks to … but virtually nothing is known about the neural circuit mechanisms that govern the remarkable coordination of …

… that while male mice have a powerful mating instinct, a circuit connecting olfactory regions with a brain region … like she is sick. Essential to this “social distancing” circuit’s function is the presence of the neuromodulatory … something quite different: identifying the neural and circuit mechanisms that underlie survival behaviors including …

… of the animal. It forms synapses with the egg-laying circuit in the midbody and then its axon projects to the head … to the head coordinates HSN’s action on the egg-laying circuit with its action on the locomotion circuit. In all, the study showed how HSN uses many parallel …

… and director of the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics at the Picower Institute for Learning and … populations In 2014, Tonegawa’s lab  identified a brain circuit  that links memories with positive or negative emotions. This circuit connects neurons in the hippocampus, which remember …