Major drivers include two circadian drivers, two extra-hypothalamic networks controlling top-down (psychogenic) and bottom-up (systemic) threats, and two intra-hypothalamic networks coordinating behavioral, autonomic, and neuroendocrine outflows.
In a complementary and perhaps a less appreciated role, adrenocortical hormones also act on brain to provide not only feedback, but feedforward control over the HPA axis itself and its various drivers, as well as coordinating behavioral and autonomic outflows, and mounting central incentive and memorial networks that are adaptive in both appetitive and aversive motivational modes.
Increasing evidence suggests that taste and olfactory preferences are particularly fast-evolving behaviors that coordinate the behavioral and metabolic specializations of a species.
PSI directly regulates the AS of at least one-third of these transcripts, suggesting that PSI-U1 snRNP interactions coordinate the behavioral network underlying courtship behavior.
Yesterday NIH Director Francis Collins announced that $10 million in recovery money will go to support the launch of the Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network – they're calling it OppNet, an initiative to support and coordinate basic behavioral research throughout NIH.
CRF acts directly on neurons in key regions of the central nervous system (e.g. bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and amygdalar complex) to coordinate the behavioral stress response through the activation of two receptor subtypes [15].
Information is then usually transferred towards higher-order integration CNS centers, the olfactory cortex (vertebrates), or the mushroom bodies and lateral horns (insects), which coordinate most behavioral and physiological responses [9], [16].
This connectivity suggests that the extended amygdala can act as a means to coordinate broad behavioral states.
Understanding how genes function within neural circuits and networks to coordinate a behavioral output is a central focus in neurogenetics.
Stress responses are crucial for survival by allowing the organism to coordinate appropriate behavioral adaptations to adverse stimuli and are essential homeostatic processes.
