Our goal is to understand how neuromodulators and their fast acting counterparts cooperate to generate the diverse behavioral outputs of the brain. (buckinstitute.org)
A similar discovery in fruit flies, reported in an earlier independent study, which shows that a particular sex pheromone enhances female sexual behaviors and male aggression via separate neural circuits between the sexes, suggests that a sexually distinct circuit may be a universal strategy for converting male pheromone information into appropriate behavioral output. (sciencedaily.com)
«In mice, fear can be seen as a binary behavioral output,» says Ramirez. (sciencedaily.com)