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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Tuesday, Sep 06
… 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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