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SUMMARY:Genetic dissection of emotion circuits in flies and mice - Francis
  Crick Lecture 2011 - Dr David Anderson\, California Institute of Technolo
 gy\, USA
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CONTACT:Scientific Meetings Co-ordinator
DESCRIPTION:Emotions are fundamental to animal and human behavior\, but ho
 w they are encoded in the brain at the level of specific neural circuits r
 emains poorly understood.  The application of genetically based tools for 
 marking\, mapping and manipulating specific populations of neurons\, toget
 her with machine vision-based approaches for automated analysis of behavio
 r\, have opened up new opportunities to understand the neurobiology of emo
 tion in model organisms.  This presentation will focus on efforts to apply
  these approaches to elucidate neural circuit-level mechanisms controlling
  aggression and defensive behaviors\, as well as associated arousal states
 \, in both flies and mice.  The information gleaned from such studies may 
 someday enable more targeted therapies for the treatment of psychiatric di
 sorders.
LOCATION:Max Perutz Lecture Theatre\, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC 
 Laboratory of Molecular Biol
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