… examine how neuromodulators coordinate activity in neural circuits to generate locomotion behaviors linked to the … an animal. His long-term goal is to understand how neural circuits generate sustained behavioral states, and how … and environmental information is integrated into these circuits. Gaining a mechanistic understanding of how these …
… species, allowing us to directly compare homologous neural circuits and pinpoint sites of adaptive change. In recent … and demonstrate how variation at discrete nodes in neural circuits can contribute to behavioral evolution. We are now … of changes that are possible and preferable within brain circuits. Vanessa Ruta received a PhD from Rockefeller …
… of those responses back to the brain. Brown studies the circuits that sense damage to the body, or “nociception,” and … suppressing pain. His careful study of the diversity of circuits involved in processing nociception has led to the …