For Motor Adjustments, Serotonin Steps In.
To adapt to their environment, animals subconsciously calculate how motor commands can be efficiently translated into the actual movements. Kawashima et al. discovered that serotonergic neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus regulate the transient memory of such efficacy; thus, successive behaviors do not require repeated cumbersome readjustment of efficacy.
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-1098, Japan. Electronic address: hitoshi@brain.riken.jp.
Hitoshi
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Okamoto
D000818:Animals; D009474:Neurons; D011903:Raphe Nuclei; D012701:Serotonin
D012701:Serotonin