Publications by authors named "Ryan W Schwark"
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- Animals often show off with cool and complex behaviors to attract mates during courtship!
- Scientists haven't studied much about how these spectacular displays connect to the animals' brain and muscles!
- The authors suggest that a brain area called the periaqueductal grey (PAG) might control these behaviors and is important for understanding how courtship displays evolve!
The prefrontal cortex receives a dense serotonergic innervation that plays an important role in its regulation. However, how serotonin regulates different pyramidal and interneuron cell classes in this area is incompletely understood. Previous work in rats has shown that serotonin differentially regulates two classes of pyramidal cells in layer 5.
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