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With Searle Scholar award, Fan will study serotonin role in memory

April 22, 2025
… Picower People With Searle Scholar award, Fan will study serotonin role in memory Assistant Professor Linlin Fan will … her lab’s precise “all-optical” techniques to study how serotonin might influence plasticity in memory, and whether … a study to determine how the neuromodulatory chemical serotonin may help the brain overcome the challenge. The …

From molecular to whole-brain scale in a simple animal, study reveals serotonin’s effects

May 15, 2023
… to whole-brain scale in a simple animal, study reveals serotonin’s effects With full genetic control and visibility … MIT scientists map out chemical’s role in behavior Because serotonin is one of the primary chemicals the brain uses to … animal model present a comprehensive accounting of how serotonin affects behavior from the scale of individual …

With sophisticated tools in a simple model, scientists aim to learn how serotonin modulates behavior

February 20, 2020
… tools in a simple model, scientists aim to learn how serotonin modulates behavior In popular experience the story of how serotonin modulates the brain might seem simple: pop an antidepressant, serotonin levels go up, mood improves. But neuroscientists … tools in a simple model, scientists aim to learn how serotonin modulates behavior Neuromodulators neuromodulation …

Feast or forage: Study finds circuit that helps a brain decide

November 22, 2021

Providing new pathways for neuroscience research and education

September 29, 2022

HHMI honor will advance Flavell’s studies of how internal brain states arise and affect behavior

July 23, 2024
… medicines target neuromodulatory brain chemicals, such as serotonin, that lie at the heart of the dynamics Flavell is … in humans, including neuromodulatory chemicals such as serotonin and dopamine. In all, the worm has more than100 … the scientists thoroughly mapped the worm’s six distinct serotonin receptors (humans have 14) across each neuron in …

'What Were you Thinking?'

September 20, 2021
… in the circuit Choi uncovered, neuromodulators such as serotonin and dopamine, which are also ubiquitous in humans, … has started to ingest and mash up its food. NSM releases serotonin , which finds its way to many of the neurons in worm’s brain that control locomotion. Upon sensing the serotonin, they hit the brakes.   In a more recent study in b …

Better living through brain chemistry

September 06, 2024
… through brain chemistry Studying neuromodulators such as serotonin and norepinephrine could help make them better … precision. They synthesize and “prescribe” neuromodulators—serotonin, dopamine, endocannabinoids, norepinephrine, … systems, for example we know which neurons release serotonin and understand basic pharmacology of many serotonin …

Study shows how a single neuron’s parallel outputs can coordinate many aspects of behavior

September 27, 2023
… phase of the behavior, HSN transfers the neurotransmitter serotonin to a fellow neuron, which re-releases it to … multiple timescales and show that neurons can ‘borrow’ serotonin from one another to control behavior,” the … a wide variety of neurotransmitter chemicals including serotonin, acetylcholine and numerous peptides. Its release …

McKnight Scholars Award supports Flavell lab’s gut-brain connection studies

May 28, 2020
… through brain chemistry Studying neuromodulators such as serotonin and norepinephrine could help make them better … Flavell lab’s gut-brain connection studies Neuromodulators serotonin gut-brain signaling Neural Circuits …

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