News & Media
Audios
In jumpy flies and fiery mice, scientists see the roots of human emotions
April 6, 2022, on Morning Edition | NPR
From Fruit Fly To Stink Eye: Searching For Anger's Animal Roots
January 29, 2019, on All Things Considered | NPR
Videos
Mapping aggression circuits in the brain
March 10, 2015 | Science News
Dr. Anderson accepts Ice Bucket Challenge from Larry Zipursky at UCLA
A Mouse Switch Turns Off Appetite
ScienceTake: The Appetite Off Switch
August 12, 2014 | The New York Times
To Study Aggression, a Fight Club for Flies
ScienceTake: Fight Club for Flies
February 3, 2014 | The New York Times
David Anderson at TEDxCaltech
"Your brain is more than a bag of chemicals"
January 18, 2013 | TEDxCaltech
Mice have 'massage neurons'
Nerve cells that detect gentle touch in mice are a hit with cats too.
January 31, 2013
Other Resources
Anderson Lab's work on KQED Science
- These Fighting Fruit Flies Are Superheroes of Brain Science
March 28, 2017 | KQED Science
Anderson Lab's work on BBC News
- How our brains can control our emotions
Summer 2014 | BBC News
Anderson Lab's article on The Dana Foundation
- Why Studies of Fighting Fruit Flies are Relevant to Understanding Human Aggression
Summer 2014 | The Dana Foundation
Anderson Lab's work on BBC News
- Brain cells can suppress appetite, study in mice shows
Summer 2014 | BBC News
Anderson Lab's work on aggression on MIT Technology Review
- Optogenetics and genomic tools make it possible to pinpoint the source of memory, consciousness, and emotions.
Summer 2014 | MIT Technology Review
Anderson, Perona and Dickinson
Fly behavior collaboration articles
- Sex, Flies, and Videotape
Fall 2010 Engineering & Science - Behaviour: Flies on film
Nature, 462, 562-564 (2009)
Hypothalamic aggression news
- Sex and violence linked in the brain
February 9, 2011 | Scientific American, - Small part of brain itching for a fight
February 9, 2011 | Scienc News
Fear circuits in the brain
- Delicate Balance in the Brain Controls Fear
November 11, 2010 | Science Daily
David Anderson at LA County Museum of Natural History