Environmental stressors, including extreme ambient temperature, the presence of pathogens or predators, and a lack of food, can profoundly influence animal behaviour. In this Perspective, Nakamura, Nakamura and Kataoka present a hypothalamomedullary network model for physiological responses to various environmental stressors.
- Kazuhiro Nakamura
- Yoshiko Nakamura
- Naoya Kataoka