Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal

Pre-print alert! @AmitKoIt from our lab created NaviGraph, an open source tool to easily consolidate data streams (location, head direction, calcium imaging and more) into a multi-layer graph. Great for any 2D spatial decision making layouts. bioRxiv: tinyurl.com/3njrj92n

Congrats to the amazing team that worked so hard on this paper: talented co-first authors Dr. Reut Hazani & Dr. @joce_breton, as well as @KerenRuzal, Dr. @estherina_t, and all other authors! meet them here: bartallab.sites.tau.ac.il/team Thanks for reading! @of_sagol #empathy 9/9

Although we still had some rat helpers after general oxytocinergic inhibition via the PVN, affiliative behavior was significantly reduced by this manipulation. In sum, affiliative relationships between rat dyads predicts helping and activity in the prosocial brain network! 8/9

Why, and when, do we decide to help someone? Understanding the neural mechanisms that explain #prosocial behavior is a major mission of our lab. This week, we've published a paper in #JNeurosci that sheds some light on that question, at least in rats : jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.… 1/9

Feeling hungry for a social paper? Feast your eyes on this - mechanism for social homeostasis unveiled by ⁦@DulacLab⁩’s fantastic team! ⁦⁩ nature.com/articles/s4158…

We are excited to share our latest work showing that mice display rescue-like prosocial behavior toward unresponsive partners. @ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@segev_b @SfNJournals really important work !

In our new paper, we show how chronic alcohol drinking reshapes brain structure - increasing white matter thickness in the reward system. This fuels further drinking, locking the brain into a vicious cycle of addiction. Published in The Journal of Neuroscience @SfNJournals

You are now constantly being manipulated so your attention can be captured and sold. This is done through a variety of ways, one of which is through the constant stream of outrage that is being pumped constantly through your eyes and ears into your brain. Sometimes it is useful to be aware of things in the world that you have the power to help change. Other times it creates a sense of hopelessness, distraction from things that matter, or, worse, an appeal to our own prejudices. Learning how to regulate your attention in the face of this tsunami is now a zen-level skill that everyone in society needs to understand and master. Otherwise you will be endlessly manipulated until the day you die.

🚨Thrilled to share our new study in Cerebral Cortex🚨: "The Future, Before, and After" The ability to imagine things we haven’t done before is one of the hallmarks of human cognition. How do we do it? academic.oup.com/cercor/article…

Don't let what you see on social media skew your view of humanity. Most bad behavior is due to a few bad apples: • Just 3% of active users are toxic, but they generate 33% of online content • 1% of communities launch 74% of conflict • 0.1% of users spread 80% of fake news @jayvanbavel podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ret…

I am excited to share our new paper published today @CellCellPress (link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jw%7ElL7PXq…). This is one of my favorite studies and took ~7 years to complete. In early 2018, we started the project, aiming at understanding the neural plasticity of the Winner effect. 1/6

Trends in Neurosciences Neural circuits for goal-directed navigation across species cell.com/trends/neurosc…

The Biomass of Life 🐧🐸🐯🐹🐼🐍🐞🦂🐙🐬🐘🦙🐊🦀 #biomass #biodiversity #infographic #science #life #animals #biology #zoology #data #dataviz #dataart #datavisualization #dataillustration #illustration