• Activation of the hypothalamic feeding centre upon visual prey detection 

      Muto, Akira; Lal, Pradeep; Ailani, Deepak; Abe, Gembu; Itoh, Mari; Kawakami, Koichi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The visual system plays a major role in food/prey recognition in diurnal animals, and food intake is regulated by the hypothalamus. However, whether and how visual information about prey is conveyed to the hypothalamic ...
    • Identification of a neuronal population in the telencephalon essential for fear conditioning in zebrafish 

      Lal, Pradeep; Tanabe, Hideyuki; Suster, Maximiliano L; Ailani, Deepak; Kotani, Yuri; Muto, Akira; Itoh, Mari; Iwasaki, Miki; Wada, Hironori; Yaksi, Emre; Kawakami, Koichi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Background Fear conditioning is a form of learning essential for animal survival and used as a behavioral paradigm to study the mechanisms of learning and memory. In mammals, the amygdala plays a crucial role in fear ...