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  • Establishing causality is crucial to understanding the mechanisms that underlie effective treatments for mental health disorders. Virtual reality environments enable manipulation and control of participants’ attributes in a therapeutic session, which could potentially revolutionize research on mechanisms of change.

    • Sigal Zilcha-Mano
    • Tal Krasovsky
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Reviews Psychology
    P: 1-2

  • Research Highlights
    Nature Methods
    Volume: 9, P: 643

  • Monitoring the activity of neurons in vivo in the freely behaving zebrafish larvae is now possible using bioluminescence, an approach with great potential for unveiling how neuronal networks control behavior.

    • Erika Pastrana
    Research Highlights
    Nature Methods
    Volume: 7, P: 346

  • Much of the study of cognition has focused on identifying universal principles and has thereby marginalized approaches that consider culture and context. However, embracing context can lead to better methods for identifying universality.

    • Ayanna K. Thomas
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Reviews Psychology
    Volume: 2, P: 453-454

  • As more mouse models are produced, researchers studying neuropsychiatric diseases will need better ways to evaluate them and more realistic assessment of the results.

    Editorial
    Nature Methods
    Volume: 8, P: 697

  • Job-hunting is never easy, and more tasks get added on for members of the LGBTQ+ community as they search for welcoming environments.

    • Vivien Marx
    News
    Nature Methods
    Volume: 20, P: 774

  • Universals of thought and behaviour across variable cultural experiences can reveal uniquely human cognition. However, culturally informed and theoretically motivated sampling is needed to reveal true universals.

    • Asifa Majid
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Reviews Psychology
    Volume: 2, P: 199-200

  • Under the guise of objectivity, psychologists ignore the fact that understanding the human condition requires engaging beyond the ivory tower. For a more inclusive science, psychologists must lean into the social aspect of being a social scientist.

    • Tissyana C. Camacho
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Reviews Psychology
    Volume: 1, P: 435-436

  • In this Journal Club, Li Qian Tay describes a paper on a method for causal analysis.

    • Li Qian Tay
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Psychology
    Volume: 1, P: 438

  • No, we are not talking about a new dish for dinner, but a study representing an emerging research field. Psilocybin research is gaining momentum, and zebrafish behavioral neuroscience research has been exponentially expanding. At the intersection of these two research fields is a recent paper that utilized high-tech video-tracking to detect behavioral changes induced by this psychoactive drug in larval zebrafish.

    • Robert Gerlai
    News & Views
    Lab Animal
    Volume: 53, P: 91-92

  • Complex and intelligent behavior depends not just on sensory evidence but also on internal cognitive state. Ashwood et al. use a powerful statistical method to identify hidden internal states in choice data.

    • Mark H. Histed
    • Jonathan F. O’Rawe
    News & Views
    Nature Neuroscience
    Volume: 25, P: 138-139

  • Two new toolkits that leverage deep-learning approaches can track the positions of multiple animals and estimate poses in different experimental paradigms.

    • Sena Agezo
    • Gordon J. Berman
    News & Views
    Nature Methods
    Volume: 19, P: 410-411

  • Assessing changes in facial expression may enable us to assess pain in animals more accurately and more effectively.

    • Paul A Flecknell
    News & Views
    Nature Methods
    Volume: 7, P: 437-438

  • Robots can be used to detect marked animals with less disturbance when assessing ecological drivers of population change.

    • Philip N Trathan
    • Louise Emmerson
    News & Views
    Nature Methods
    Volume: 11, P: 1217-1218

  • Two methodological approaches allow researchers to manipulate the formation and reactivation of memories in mice.

    • Erika Pastrana
    Research Highlights
    Nature Methods
    Volume: 9, P: 431

  • By building a richer behavioral vocabulary, Wiltschko et al. tease apart subtle differences in how pharmacological agents affect animal behavior, mapping on- and off-target effects of drugs with improved precision.

    • Ann Kennedy
    News & Views
    Nature Neuroscience
    Volume: 23, P: 1314-1316

  • Plankton regularly travel vast distances up and down in the ocean. A water-filled hamster wheel with glass windows now enables detailed microscopic lab observations of individual aquatic microorganisms during their vertical migrations.

    • Katja M. Taute
    News & Views
    Nature Methods
    Volume: 17, P: 965-966

  • Building a sustainable open source toolbox to track social behavior and how to get in the zone.

    • Vivien Marx
    News
    Nature Methods
    Volume: 19, P: 373

  • Lessons from the volleyball court help to compare ways to measure how much flies eat.

    • Vivien Marx
    News
    Nature Methods
    Volume: 11, P: 465

  • Widely used behavioral assays need re-evaluation and validation against their intended use. We focus here on measures of chronic anxiety in mouse models and posit that widely used assays such as the open-field test are performed at the wrong time, for inadequate durations and using inappropriate mouse strains. We propose that behavioral assays be screened for usefulness on the basis of their replicability across laboratories.

    • Ehud Fonio
    • Ilan Golani
    • Yoav Benjamini
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Methods
    Volume: 9, P: 1167-1170

  • Fly rhythms under natural light and temperature differ from those in the lab.

    • Monya Baker
    Research Highlights
    Nature Methods
    Volume: 9, P: 529

  • A high-throughput phenotypic screen in zebrafish embryos provides distinctive signatures by which neuroactive chemicals can be classified. These “behavioral barcodes” provide a systems approach to elucidating the mechanistic neuropharmacology of drugs and novel compounds.

    • Jeremy L Jenkins
    • Laszlo Urban
    News & Views
    Nature Chemical Biology
    Volume: 6, P: 172-173

  • An avian backpack for discerning individual zebra finches' songs and studying cognition comes to Switzerland via Novosibirsk, Russia.

    • Vivien Marx
    News
    Nature Methods
    Volume: 11, P: 1079

  • Putting a face on pain in mice should improve our ability to measure it.

    • Monya Baker
    News
    Nature Methods
    Volume: 7, P: 415