How does the brain handle the trade-off between energy usage and information processing during food scarcity? In the first of this year’s Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series, Dr Zahid Padamsey discussed his work on how energy and information processing is regulated in the brain when food is limited.

Our understanding of animal behaviour has traditionally relied upon the results of artificial laboratory tasks. But increasingly, research groups around the world are recognising the need for more naturalistic studies of animals in ethologically-relevant contexts. In a recent SWC Virtual Seminar, Dr Ben Hayden shared his work on elucidating the neural basis of decision-making in these more complex settings.