TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lenzi, Irene
AU  - Musall, Simon
TI  - From syllables to states: Hierarchical organization of self-motivated behavior across brain circuits.
JO  - Neuron
VL  - 114
IS  - 5
SN  - 0896-6273
CY  - [Cambridge, Mass.]
PB  - Cell Press
M1  - DZNE-2026-00251
SP  - 798 - 800
PY  - 2026
AB  - Weinreb et al.1 show that spontaneous behavior is hierarchically organized into self-motivated states and reusable action syllables. While the prefrontal cortex primarily encodes behavioral states, the dorsolateral striatum governs action sequencing, revealing a distributed neural architecture for natural behavior.
KW  - Humans
KW  - Motivation: physiology
KW  - Animals
KW  - Brain: physiology
KW  - Prefrontal Cortex: physiology
KW  - Neural Pathways: physiology
KW  - Nerve Net: physiology
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:41785846
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2026.01.029
UR  - https://pub.dzne.de/record/285474
ER  -