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NSF ‘CAREER’ award helps fund Flavell lab study of behavioral states

Tuesday, Feb 12
… are sustained neuromodulation Neuromodulators C. elegans behavior Picower Institute faculty member Steven Flavell … such a big, complex and universal question about animal behavior, Flavell is working with a small-scale model … “A full understanding of how neural circuits give rise to behavior requires detailed knowledge across many scales of …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/480

How severe maternal inflammation can lead to autism-like behavior

Thursday, Jan 28
… 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 …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/459

Scientists identify brain circuit that drives pleasure-inducing behavior

Wednesday, Mar 22
… 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 …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/98

Dopamine signaling allows neural circuits to generate coordinated behaviors

Thursday, Jun 11
… 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 …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/666

Gut-brain connection signals worms to alter behavior while eating

Thursday, Dec 20
… 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 …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/457

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

Thursday, Feb 20
… model, scientists aim to learn how serotonin modulates behavior February 20, 2020 New Research New NIH grant funds … study that will span receptors, cells, the whole brain and behavior Neuromodulators neuromodulation C. elegans serotonin … know about how the neurotransmitter affects circuits and behavior in the incredibly complex human brain. To reveal the …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/623

Mice naturally engage in physical distancing, study finds

Wednesday, Mar 31
… from mating with others that appear to be sick amygdala behavior social behavior https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03413-6 … the brain circuit responsible for this distancing behavior. In a study that explores how otherwise powerful …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/773

Study may explain how infections reduce autism symptoms

Wednesday, Dec 18
… produced during infection can influence the social behavior of mice. neuroimmunology Neuroimmune interactions … the mice’s body temperature did not have any effect on behavior, offering further evidence that IL-17a is necessary … about this paper is that it shows that this effect on behavior is not necessarily a result of fever but the result …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/597

Steven Flavell

… Computational Neuroscience Mood Disorders Motivation and Behavior neuromodulation behavior calcium imaging C. elegans gut-brain signaling …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/41

Colloquium with Huizhong Tao, PhD, University of Southern California

… on corticofugal controls of different types of defense behavior and regulation of the behaviors via a subthalamic …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/466

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