Sonja Hofer (@sonjahofer.bsky.social)

Should you stick to your goal, try something else, or give up? Your median raphe nucleus in the brainstem knows and will decide for you 😉. First foray of my lab into foraging, behavioural strategies and exploration. Amazing work from the one and only Mehran Ahmadlou: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A subcortical switchboard for perseverative, exploratory and disengaged states - Nature Behavioural experiments in mice demonstrate that GABAergic (γ-aminobutyric acid-expressing), glutamatergic and serotonergic neurons in the median raphe nucleus have distinct and complementary function... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08672-1?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20250305&utm_content=10.1038/s41586-025-08672-1