Wittlinger, Wehner and Wolf's 2006 "stilts and stumps" Science paper revealed how ants pull off extraordinary feats of navigation using a biological odometer, and it inspired Tuthill to consider how other insects sense their own bodies.

Rather than act as a simple switchboard for innate behaviors, the hypothalamus encodes an animal's internal state, which influences behavior.

A countenance such as a grimace activates many of the same cortical pathways as voluntary facial movements.

Since debunking an urban legend that headbutting animals don't damage their brain, Nicole Ackermans has been investigating how the behavior correlates with neurodegeneration.

A competition to design small, efficient neural models might provide new insight into real brains-and perhaps unite disparate modeling efforts.

Kampff's do-it-yourself approach inspired a generation of neuroscientists.

The atlas also offers up molecular and cellular targets for new pain therapies.

Amid the rise of billion-parameter models, I argue that toy models, with just a few neurons, remain essential-and may be all neuroscience needs.

Simple behavioral assays-originally validated as drug-screening tools-fall short in studies that aim to unpack the psychedelic mechanism of action, so some behavioral neuroscientists are developing more nuanced tasks.

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