David Anderson, the Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, has been awarded the 17th Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine. The award, a $20,000 prize, is given to honor seminal discoveries in the field of neuroscience. Anderson is being recognized for "his discovery of neural circuit mechanisms controlling emotional behaviors," according to the award citation.