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Hunger-Driven Motivational State Competition
Goal-directed behaviors are sets of motor actions that direct an animal toward an explicit target object, an interaction that promotes individual survival and/or maintains the species. Despite the necessity of motivated behaviors ranging from ingestive to reproductive to aggressive/defensive exploits, an organism can only perform a single action at any given time, highlighting the tremendous flexibility and speed with which the brain can coordinate complex decision-making. We investigate the role distinct levels of satiety play on shaping innate, motivated drive states as well as the subsets of neurons capable of perturbing innate behavioral choice.
Date:
30 March 2017, 12:00
Venue:
Sherrington Library
Speaker:
Michael Krashes (National Institutes of Health (NIH))
Organising department:
Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour
Organiser:
Fiona Woods (University of Oxford, Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour)
Organiser contact email address:
fiona.woods@cncb.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Carla Bramble
