Butterfly Brain

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This is a sparkling series of hilarious and true anecdotes, almost all of which have never been told before! Dr Stephen Montgomery of Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences explained: “ Heliconius are the only butterflies known to collect and digest pollen, which gives them an adult source of protein, when most other butterflies exclusively obtain protein as caterpillars. A beautiful message about how those who we may have lost are always around us in their own special way. Laura has written unique work including immersive tours of archive celebrating the work of both Roald Dahl and Tove Jansson for The Southbank Centre. This expansion and visual specialization of the mushroom bodies were accompanied by enhanced visual learning and memory abilities.

Positive HD indices were expected from compass neurons that change their angular tuning, represented by the preferred firing direction (pfd), in accordance with the butterfly’s change in mean heading (green neurons in Fig. In the turn of a page, Laura took me from laughing out loud to wiping away tears – and that still happens on every reading. During our experiments, we recorded from 19 neurons that showed a tuning predicted for neurons involved in steering behavior. This makes sense because of what you have probably observed – caterpillars crawl and butterflies walk and fly. This little butterfly is going to help Gus recapture all he has lost, including the memories of his mum that he has hidden deep inside himself for years.

When the MGMT promoter is methylated, or silenced, cells become more sensitive to alkylating agents used to facilitate apoptosis, such as temozolomide [ 10]. A 47-year-old Indian male presented with headache and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain was done to rule out any structural cause. Laura is a judge on the Blue Peter Awards 2018: “I adored judging the Blue Peter Book Award, the nominated list was incredibly strong and made judging the prize so difficult. So even though the muscles in the caterpillar and butterfly are different, many of the brain cells that signal those muscles in the caterpillar will remain the same through metamorphosis and signal the new muscles in the butterfly.

Of long-term GBM survivors, 95% have MGMT methylated promoters [ 11], demonstrating its role in prognostication. The book has a lovely message that those close to us are never really gone and will always be a part of us. I loved the message in this, about someone that has passed is still with you in some way - ‘somebody who loves you never goes far’.Given the highly conserved function of the insect central complex 1, 36, 37, 38, this brain region is central for spatial orientation in monarch butterflies. S9b), than what would be expected from a negative phototactic behavior in monarch butterflies 48, suggesting that their orientation strategy remained a menotactic behavior.