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… processes movement, reward information to help direct behavior hippocampus … circuits guiding goal-directed movement and motivated behavior . Published Sept. 19 in Current Biology , the … septum (LS), a region considered integral to modulating behavior and implicated in many psychiatric disorders, …

… July 1, 2019 News Feature Studies yield new insights into behavior, development, anesthesia neuromodulation anesthesia … leap in connecting bacterial sensing in the gut with behavior, providing clues about how the gut and brain might … the gut, like serotonin, influence the brain to affect behavior, in both the worm and in people. The answers have …

… also discovered that noradrenaline helps to stimulate behavior that leads to a reward, particularly in situations … student, are the lead authors of the paper. Modulating behavior Noradrenaline is one of several neuromodulators that … receive a reward. “The animal is constantly adjusting its behavior,” Sur says. “Even though it has already learned the …

… favor of quicker differentiation, study finds motor cortex behavior circuit mapping circuits … and Memory at MIT, the crucial decision to switch from one behavior (running) to another (stopping) comes from the … where it gets complicated. The mathematical models of the behavior that postdoc and study lead author Elie Adam …

… her as more enduring in the brain and more profound for behavior than sensation: memory and knowledge.   At the … synaptic properties, and neural circuit dynamics, and behavior all in awake, behaving mammals,” Fan said. In her …

… how their neural organization and activity enables behavior, and how nervous systems can develop and regenerate. … needed for a jellyfish to execute a particular movement behavior, only to find that within a week they all grow back … nervous system entirely from scratch and allowing this behavior to recover,” Weissbourd said. “So a motivation for …

… and signals the motor cortex to adjust cortex motor cortex behavior optogenetics … to update that understanding and change the rats’ behavior to fit the new regime. The anterior cingulate cortex … updated cells in the motor cortex (M2) to adjust the task behavior. “I started this project about 7 or 8 years ago when …

… may actually be a sophisticated regulator of learning and behavior, an MIT team posits circuit mapping Neuromodulators neuromodulation behavior … may actually be a sophisticated regulator of learning and behavior, an MIT team posits Small and seemingly specialized, …