Topic: targeted intracellular electrophysiology

During hunger onset, animals need to reprioritize the behaviours they express to maximize the chance of finding food. Selecting the appropriate actions requires them to gauge their internal hunger-state but also to weigh up the value of inputs coming from their external environment. The neural mechanisms that underlie this survival-linked perceptual decision-making are of significant interest, but poorly understood.To identify the underlying neural mechanisms of these motivational state dependent decisions, we used the mollusc, Lymnaea stagnalis, whose behaviours have been extensively characte