Teaching about the nervous system has become a challenging task in secondary biology
and science education because of the fast development in the field of neuroscience. A major …

Feeding is dynamically regulated by the palatability of the food source and the physiological
needs of the animal. How consumption is controlled by external sensory cues and internal …

We use the moth Heliothis virescens as model organism for studying the neural network
involved in chemosensory coding and learning. The constituent neurons are characterised by …

Sucrose stimulation of gustatory receptor neurons on the antennae, the tarsi, and the mouthparts
elicits the proboscis extension reflex in many insect species, including lepidopterans. …

The arrangement of anatomically separated systems for information about general and
pheromone odorants is well documented at the initial levels of the olfactory pathway both in …

Discrimination between edible and noxious food, crucial for animal survival, is based on
separate gustatory receptors for phagostimulants and deterrents. In the moth Heliothis virescens …

Digital three dimensional standard brain atlases are valuable tools for integrating neuroimaging
data of different preparations. In insects, standard brain atlases of five species are …

Knowledge about the neuronal pathways of the taste system is interesting both for studying
taste coding and appetitive learning of odours. We here present the morphology of the …

The hippocampus and entorhinal cortex (EC) are areas affected early and severely in
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and this is associated with deficits in episodic memory. Amyloid-β (Aβ), …

The olfactory pathway in the insect brain is anatomically well described from the antennal
lobe (AL) to the mushroom bodies and the lateral protocerebrum (LP) in several species. Less …