image: Arousal center neurons are activated in a new environment, but they are not activated (and mice are "chill") following elimination of the 175 pranayama neurons in breathing center. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 31, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by K. Yackle at Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Stanford, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Breathing control center neurons that promote arousal in mice." view more
Credit: Kevin Yackle, Lindsay A. Shwarz, Kaewen Kam, Jordan M. Sorokin, John R. Huguenard, Jack L. Feldman Liqun Luo, and Mark Krasnow