| Title: |
Molecular analysis of neural circuits underlying emotional behaviors [electronic resource] / David Anderson. |
| Author(s)/Name(s): |
Anderson, David, |
| Publisher: |
[Bethesda, Md. : National Institutes of Health, 2007] |
| Related Names: |
National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Immunology Interest Group. |
| Series: |
NIH director’s Wednesday afternoon lecture series |
| Language: |
eng |
| Electronic Links: |
http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?14021 |
| MeSH Subjects: |
Behavior, Animal --physiology |
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Brain --physiology |
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Drosophila |
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Fear --physiology |
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Mice |
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Neurons --metabolism |
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Lectures |
| Summary: |
(CIT): Emotions are fundamental to normal and abnormal human behavior, but we know relatively little about the genes and brain circuits that control them. Recent progress in mapping the ’molecular landscape’ of the brain has opened up the possibility of using genes to mark, map and functionally manipulate highly specific brain regions or groups of neurons, to determine their roles in emotional behavior. Examples of how this approach can be applied in mice to the study of fear, a basic emotion, will be presented. Fruit flies represent a more rapid, inexpensive and powerful system to apply similar genetic approaches to the dissection of neural circuits, but whether these insects exhibit behaviors that could be considered ’emotional’ is not clear. Preliminary investigations into this challenging problem will be discussed. |
| Notes: |
Title from title screen (viewed Oct. 19, 2007). |
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Streaming video (1 hr., 18 sec. : sd., col.). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Open-captioned. |
| NLM Unique ID: |
101317964 |
| Other ID Numbers: |
(DNLM)CIT:14021 |
