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

July 23, 2024

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Dopamine signaling allows neural circuits to generate coordinated behaviors

June 11, 2020

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

February 20, 2020

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From molecular to whole-brain scale in a simple animal, study reveals serotonin’s effects

May 15, 2023

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Fellowship enables study of how the brain makes memories of places

July 01, 2024

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How the brain responds to surprising events

June 01, 2022

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

November 22, 2021

Grant to help scientists test whether brain region is a key locus of learning

July 23, 2021

'What Were you Thinking?'

September 20, 2021

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Gut-brain connection signals worms to alter behavior while eating

December 20, 2018

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