About this Research Topic
During the last decades, there has been increased interest in understanding the neurobiology and behavior of teleost models. However, there are large gaps in our understanding of what and how specific brain regions regulate teleost physiology and behavior in response to internal and external stimuli. Understanding these mechanisms will allow for further manipulations.
These may be applied within the following domains:
1.biomedical (e.g. developing drugs towards specific brain targets controlling behavioral outputs),
2.ecological (e.g. using environmental enrichment in hatchery-reared fish to increase neural and behavioral plasticity to enhance their survival in restocking programs of threatened wild species),
3.physiological (e.g. elucidating the interplay between CNS and peripheral systems in the regulation of whole organisms responses such as stress),
4.ethological (e.g. how brain region-specific research in fish may elucidate conserved systems between the vertebrate phylum), and
5.neurobiology (e.g. understanding how behavioral outputs are regulated by specific neural systems).
The aim of this Research Topic is (A) elucidating how specific regulation of brain areas and signaling molecules are associated with behavioral outputs in teleost animal models, particularly in the context of neural plasticity, and (B) understanding how behavior is regulated by specific neural regions and signaling molecules in the teleost brain, particularly related to environmental stimuli and brain plasticity.
We particularly welcome submission of Original Research, Review, Methods, and Perspective articles and research articles focusing on, but not limited to:
1. Memory and learning (such as neural plasticity in response to different environmental stimuli)
2. Behavioral endocrinology (such as the study of signaling molecules associated with reproduction, mating and dominance)
3. Functional neuroanatomy (elucidating functions of specific neural populations and their role in neuropathological conditions)
These may be applied within the following domains:
1.biomedical (e.g. developing drugs towards specific brain targets controlling behavioral outputs),
2.ecological (e.g. using environmental enrichment in hatchery-reared fish to increase neural and behavioral plasticity to enhance their survival in restocking programs of threatened wild species),
3.physiological (e.g. elucidating the interplay between CNS and peripheral systems in the regulation of whole organisms responses such as stress),
4.ethological (e.g. how brain region-specific research in fish may elucidate conserved systems between the vertebrate phylum), and
5.neurobiology (e.g. understanding how behavioral outputs are regulated by specific neural systems).
The aim of this Research Topic is (A) elucidating how specific regulation of brain areas and signaling molecules are associated with behavioral outputs in teleost animal models, particularly in the context of neural plasticity, and (B) understanding how behavior is regulated by specific neural regions and signaling molecules in the teleost brain, particularly related to environmental stimuli and brain plasticity.
We particularly welcome submission of Original Research, Review, Methods, and Perspective articles and research articles focusing on, but not limited to:
1. Memory and learning (such as neural plasticity in response to different environmental stimuli)
2. Behavioral endocrinology (such as the study of signaling molecules associated with reproduction, mating and dominance)
3. Functional neuroanatomy (elucidating functions of specific neural populations and their role in neuropathological conditions)
Keywords: Plasticity, Functional neuroanatomy, Brain, Behavior, comparative physiology
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