Jeffrey W. Brown

The paper investigates how the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and central nervous system (CNS) coordinate non-reflexive defensive behaviors in the nudibranch Berghia stephanieae, showing distinct roles for each system in different stages of bristling.

This study uses computational modeling to show that open-loop thalamo-reticulo-thalamic synaptic motifs support cortical signal propagation better than closed-loop configurations.