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

Thursday, Feb 20
… tools in a simple model, scientists aim to learn how serotonin modulates behavior February 20, 2020 New Research … and behavior Neuromodulators neuromodulation C. elegans serotonin Internal states In popular experience the story of how serotonin modulates the brain might seem simple: pop an …
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Gut-brain connection signals worms to alter behavior while eating

Thursday, Dec 20
… The GI tract is also the source of most of the body’s serotonin, which also play a role in appetite. Additionally, … how that worked,” Flavell says. The researchers knew that serotonin release was driving the slowdown, but they didn’t … To try to figure that out, they decided to study a type of serotonin-producing enteric neurons called …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/457

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

Monday, Nov 22
… behavioral states Neuromodulators neuromodulation serotonin nematodes https://elifesciences.org/articles/62889 … of newly ingested food and emit a neuromodulator called serotonin to signal other neurons to slow the worm down to … power depended on the roaming neurons having an inhibitory serotonin receptor, called MOD-1. If Ji genetically knocked …
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Neuroscientists look to the body to better understand the brain

Monday, Jul 01
… in the lab with graduate student Jungsoo Kim to study serotonin’s effect on the brain In 2013 Flavell had … a worm is eating, the neuron emits the neurotransmitter serotonin to signal to other neurons. In the new paper, he … about how neurotransmitters emanating from the gut, like serotonin, influence the brain to affect behavior, in both …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/539

'What Were you Thinking?'

Monday, Sep 20
… guide behavior oscillations circuits amygdala hippocampus serotonin neuromodulation How brain circuits integrate many … 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 …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/851

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

Thursday, May 28
… the body’s microbiome influences the brain Neuromodulators serotonin gut-brain signaling A rapidly growing collection of …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/660

How the brain responds to surprising events

Wednesday, Jun 01
… that influence the brain, along with dopamine, serotonin, and acetylcholine. Unlike neurotransmitters, which …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/924

Dopamine signaling allows neural circuits to generate coordinated behaviors

Thursday, Jun 11
… molecules. Many of those candidates, such as serotonin, affected the animal’s behavior in important ways, …
https://picower.mit.edu/node/666

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