In the last decade, researchers using Drosophila melanogaster have made extraordinary
progress in uncovering the mysteries underlying learning and memory. This progress has …

Dopaminergic neurons projecting from the Substantia Nigra to the Striatum play a critical
role in motor functions while dopaminergic neurons originating in the Ventral Tegmental …

Animals display selective escape behaviors when faced with environmental threats.
Selection of the appropriate response by the underlying neuronal network is key to …

The coincidence between conditioned stimulus (CS) and unconditioned stimulus (US) is
essential for associative learning; however, the mechanism regulating the duration of this …

In vertebrates, several forms of memory-relevant synaptic plasticity involve postsynaptic
rearrangements of glutamate receptors. In contrast, previous work indicates that Drosophila …

This fourth edition of Putting Psychology in Its Place builds on the previous three in
introducing the history of Psychology and placing the discipline within its historical and …

Understanding of the neural bases for complex behaviors in Hymenoptera insect species
has been limited by a lack of tools that allow measuring neuronal activity simultaneously in …

Learned behavior can be suppressed by the extinction procedure. Such extinguished
memory often returns spontaneously over time, making it difficult to treat diseases such as …

The Drosophila mushroom body (MB) is an important model system for studying the synaptic
mechanisms of associative learning. In this system, coincidence of odor-evoked calcium …

Anatomical and physiological compartmentalization of neurons is a mechanism to increase
the computational capacity of a circuit, and a major question is what role axonal …