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… 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 …

… for neuroscience research with more naturalistic behavior November 13, 2024 Research Findings System developed … experiments, all while enabling the most natural behavior possible, has been difficult to realize. To empower … our ability to perform neural recordings in naturalistic behavior,” said corresponding author Jakob Voigts, an MIT …

… 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 …

… studies of how internal brain states arise and affect behavior July 23, 2024 Picower People In animals from worms … feelings and drives such as hunger or sleepiness influence behavior. With flexible, long-term support as a newly named … feelings and drives such as hunger or sleepiness influence behavior. With flexible, long-term support as a newly named …

… 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 …

… Gut-brain connection signals worms to alter behavior while eating December 20, 2018 Research findings … a much simpler nervous system, as a model to study feeding behavior. Researchers have previously shown that food greatly … and how serotonergic gut-to-brain signaling might alter behavior in mammals. These new mechanisms worked out in the …

… How severe maternal inflammation can lead to autism-like behavior January 28, 2016 Research findings Immune molecules in infected mothers tied to brain and behavior abnormalities in offspring. neuroimmunology … also found that blocking this signal could restore normal behavior and brain structure. “In the mice, we could treat …

… neuron’s parallel outputs can coordinate many aspects of behavior September 27, 2023 Research Findings In C. elegans … over the course of several minutes C. elegans serotonin behavior … the eggs are laid. To control that latter phase of the behavior, HSN transfers the neurotransmitter serotonin to a …