BRAINS IN BRIEFS
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Controlling serotonin circuits in the brain with light manipulates mice into approaching or avoiding rodent bullies
or, technically,
Optogenetic modulation of descending prefrontocortical inputs to the dorsal raphe bidirectionally bias socioaffective choices after social defeat. [See the original abstract on PubMed]