Insect neurobiology symposium in Munich, session 7 |
The seventh session started with the 24th talk of this meeting by Mirjam Appel. She told us about a mutant screen for forward and backward conditioning in aversive olfactory conditioning in Drosophila. I this setup, an e...[more] |
dopamine drosophila odor learning |
Posted on Saturday 12 December 2009 - 18:08:00 |
Why do we like to move it? An evolutionary hypothesis concerning motor control and reward. |
I met Columbia neurologist John Krakauer (who has a very interesting brother at the Santa Fe Institute, by the way) at the 2006 SfN meeting in Atlanta after his ...[more] |
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Posted on Tuesday 30 September 2008 - 16:46:00 |
Dopamine everywhere |
The third session here at the Janelia Farm Conference “Learning and Memory: A Synthesis of Flies and Honeybees” covered the action of dopamine. Hiromu Tanimoto started with his experiments trying to identify the dopami...[more] |
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Posted on Monday 16 May 2011 - 21:32:47 |
#WCBR To ski or not to ski: dopamine and decision-making |
In the first talk of this afternoon session at the Winter Conference on Brain Research (WCBR) Jeff Beeler showed data that hyperdopaminergic dopamine transporter knock-down mice (which have increased dopamine levels) don...[more] |
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Posted on Wednesday 25 January 2012 - 02:38:15 |