There's far more potential in tame mice than we can explore alone.
You’ve never seen such friendly mice. They won't leave your hand and are hard to put back in the home cage.
If you're interested in studying them, please contact me or Prof. Koide.
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Mice do play with humans:
Our new study found that selective breeding makes mice more playful toward both humans and other mice.
We also found that both mice and hamsters produce distinct vocalizations depending on the species of their interaction partner.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lsK5_3oCG...
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Young Investigator Award for Innovative Neuroscience Research
Dr. Shimpei Ishiyama receives international recognition for his pioneering work on the neurobiology of positive emotions.
Honored to receive the Japan Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award.
My review The Neurobiology of Ticklishness was written as part of this award—exploring fun, play, and laughter in the brain.
News from my institute: www.zi-mannheim.de/en/institute...
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The neurobiology of ticklishness
Ticklishness is an idiosyncratic form of touch observed in multiple animal species, including humans. Although commonly regarded as trivial, it involv…
Why can’t we tickle ourselves?
Why do kids enjoy it but adults don’t?
Pleasure or discomfort—or even sensual?
Did you know there are two types?
A new review delves into the neurobiology of ticklishness: sensory, emotional, sociosexual, and evolutionary.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Congratulations!
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Would North Sentinelese people tickle each other?
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Scientist, illustrator, & animator, combining art & science to study the incredible behaviors of extreme divers. Website: jessiekb.com
Scripps Postdoctoral Scholar
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Neuroscience Professor studying the neural circuits of social behaviors at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Check out our lab website: www.dayulinlab.org.
Associate Prof | Columbia Biology & Zuckerman Institute
Freeman Hrabowski Scholar | HHMI
We study how the skin-brain axis drives somatosensory behaviors
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Associate Prof at Northumbria U, looking at Droso learning, memory, neuropeptides, play.
Die DFG ist die größte Forschungsförderorganisation und die Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der Wissenschaft in Deutschland.
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Assistant Professor and PI at Donders and Karolinska Institutes, leading the Somatosensation&Gargalesis lab (a.k.a Touch&Tickle lab). I study actions, touch, and tickles 🧠 (https://www.kiltenilab.org/). Ελληνίδα μάνα who cooks dolmadakia for friends.
Working on material culture, (animal) innovation, social learning and personality.
Research Fellow at the University of Mannheim.
Cognitive scientist, associate professor at Aarhus University.
Predictive Processing, Emotion, Play, Recreational Fear, Cognitive Development.
Real world neuroscience.
Neuroscience of animal societies and in the wild.
Flying bats, shrinking shrews, running rats.
FRS. Director, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz, Germany. 🏴
Neuroscientist, and musician in The Amygdaloids
Animal pose estimation software - open, free, often SOTA, and helping enable your science since 2018 💜 DeepLabCut.org | #deeplabcut | posts by dev team 👋
Neuroscientist at Max Planck Florida Institute. Mom x3. New Yorker at heart. She/her
Neuroscientist. Canadian.
Prof of Translational Psychiatry, Goethe University, Frankfurt
PI at the institute of neuroscience in Alicante. Social interactions. Felix-leroy.com
