Our gut microbiota influences how we feel | Noldus Our guts are our second brain. But how does that work? Researchers implanted the gut flora of depressed mice into non-depressed mice and observed the results.

I recently wrote a blog about the role of the vagus nerve in transmitting 'gut feelings'. You can read it here: www.noldus.com/blog/gut-bra...
#neuroscience #noldus #anxiety #depression

Drawing of pigeon Purkinje cells (A) by Santiago Ramon y Cajal 1899 (Wikipedia Commons)

Here is a new blog post that I've just written, all about the placebo effect.
www.noldus.com/blog/how-doe...
#Noldus, #EthoVision, #Neuroscience

Drosophila on a leaf

Part of the solution to reducing the number of animals used in research could be to switch to using other species, like insects. I've just written a blog about that:
www.noldus.com/blog/flies-fst
#Behavior #Porsolt #Dropsophila #OpenField #ForcedSwimTest #Psilocybin #Psilocybe #zebrafish #Noldus