In the past decades, reductionism has dominated both research directions and funding
policies in clinical psychology and psychiatry. The intense search for the biological basis of …

Neuroimaging has a lot to offer comparative neuroscience. Although invasive “gold
standard” techniques have a better spatial resolution, neuroimaging allows fast, whole …

The common marmoset, a New World (platyrrhine) monkey, is currently being fast-tracked as
a non-human primate model species, especially for genetic modification but also as a …

Ctenophores are descendants of one of the earliest branching metazoan lineage with
enigmatic nervous systems. The lack of convenient neurogenic molecules and …

Natural variations across animals in form, function, and behavior have long been sources of
inspiration to scientists. Despite this, experimentalists focusing on the neural bases of …

Although, neurosensory systems might have evolved independently in ctenophores, very
little is known about their organization and functions. Most ctenophores are pelagic and …

Social plasticity, defined as the ability to adaptively change the expression of social behavior
according to previous experience and to social context, is a key ecological performance trait …

The selection of model species tends to involve two typically unstated assumptions,
namely:(1) that the similarity between species decreases steadily with phylogenetic …

Neuroscience is enjoying a renaissance of discovery due in large part to the implementation
of next-generation molecular technologies. The advent of genetically encoded tools has …

Borsboom et al.'s formulation provides an opportunity for a fundamental rethink about the
“brain disease model” of addiction that dominates research, treatment, policy, and lay …