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Cracking the code that relates brain and behavior in a simple animal

August 21, 2023

An elegant behavior switching circuit

Dopamine coordination of motor behaviors

Open technology platform enables new versatility for neuroscience research with more naturalistic behavior

November 13, 2024

… 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 …

Immune molecule influences social behavior

… Immune molecule influences social behavior Discoveries For years physicians and parents have … how illness among people with autism might improve social behavior. First they replicated the phenomenon in mice whose … pregnancy. They found that the improvement in social behavior during illness occurred because of heightened …

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

July 23, 2024

Dopamine signaling allows neural circuits to generate coordinated behaviors

June 11, 2020

Scientists identify brain circuit that drives pleasure-inducing behavior

March 22, 2017

… 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 …

Simple animal model reveals how environment and state are integrated to control behavior

September 06, 2022

… 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

… 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 …