Highlights•Technical advances are producing bigger and denser Drosophila melanogaster
connectomes.•Mapping connectomics to other data types is a challenging but crucial …

The neural circuits responsible for animal behavior remain largely unknown. We summarize
new methods and present the circuitry of a large fraction of the brain of the fruit fly …

Making inferences about the computations performed by neuronal circuits from synapse-
level connectivity maps is an emerging opportunity in neuroscience. The mushroom body …

The neural circuits responsible for behavior remain largely unknown. Previous efforts have
reconstructed the complete circuits of small animals, with hundreds of neurons, and selected …

Dopamine plays a central role in motivating and modifying behavior, serving to invigorate
current behavioral performance and guide future actions through learning. Here we examine …

When an animal moves through the world, its brain receives a stream of information about
the body's translational velocity from motor commands and sensory feedback signals. These …

Long-lasting internal arousal states motivate and pattern ongoing behaviour, enabling the
temporary emergence of innate behavioural programs that serve the needs of an animal …

The hemibrain connectome provides large-scale connectivity and morphology information
for the majority of the central brain of Drosophila melanogaster. Using this data set, we …

The detection of visual motion enables sophisticated animal navigation, and studies on flies
have provided profound insights into the cellular and circuit bases of this neural …

Effective and stimulus-specific learning is essential for animals' survival. Two major
mechanisms are known to aid stimulus specificity of associative learning. One is accurate …