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ArticleCell reports2024

Adaptive robustness through incoherent signaling mechanisms in a regenerative brain.

Samuel R Bray, Livia S Wyss, Chew Chai, Maria E Lozada, Bo Wang

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Article in Cell reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. A single brief cue leaves a day-long internal state imprint in planarians.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Samuel R BrayDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Livia S WyssDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Chew ChaiDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Maria E LozadaDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA.
Bo WangDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Electronic address: wangbo@stanford.edu.

Funding

Supplement to Enhance Wellness and Resiliency in the Graduate EnvironmentT32GM007276 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI MORRISON, ASHBY J. · 1985 to 2023
$32.9M
Comparative systems biology defines regulatory mechanisms in whole-body regenerationR35GM138061 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Bo Wang · 2020 to 2026
$2.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM138061NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007276
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animal behavior emerges from collective dynamics of neurons, making it vulnerable to damage. Paradoxically, many organisms exhibit a remarkable ability to maintain significant behavior even after large-scale neural injury. Molecular underpinnings of this extreme robustness remain largely unknown. Here, we develop a quantitative pipeline to measure long-lasting latent states in planarian flatworm behaviors during whole-brain regeneration. By combining >20,000 animal trials with neural network modeling, we show that long-range volumetric peptidergic signals allow the planarian to rapidly restore coarse behavior output after large perturbations to the nervous system, while slow restoration of small-molecule neuromodulator functions refines precision. This relies on the different time and length scales of neuropeptide and small-molecule transmission to generate incoherent patterns of neural activity that competitively regulate behavior. Controlling behavior through opposing communication mechanisms creates a more robust system than either alone and may serve as a generalizable approach for constructing robust neural networks.

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PlanariansUltraviolet RaysBehavior, AnimalHeadMemory, Short-TermNervous SystemNeurogenesisNeuropeptidesRegenerationNeuropeptidesanimal behaviorbehavioral statesbrain regenerationCP: Neurosciencememoryneural information processingneural robustnessneuromodulatorsneuropeptidesplanarianrecurrent neural networks

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PMID39133614
PMCPMC12435811

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