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Replacing in vivo animal studies is challenging for neurotoxicity and developmental neurotoxicity (DNT), where the functional relevancy of adverse outcomes needs to be assessed on the whole organism. We previously screened the NTP 87-compound library (NTP87), consisting of known and suspected developmental neurotoxicants, and showed that planarian HTS can identify known (developmental) neurotoxicants. Because analysis methods can impact screening results, and our original analysis used the lowest-observed-effect-level (LOEL) only, we hypothesized that the use of state-of-the-art statistical analysis would increase the sensitivity of planarian HTS to identify neurotoxicity and DNT. Using the original NTP87 planarian data, we quantified 8 additional behavioral endpoints for a total of 26 readouts on days 7 and 12 of exposure, evaluated at 5 log-scale concentrations (10\u2009nM\u2013100\u2009\u00b5M). Benchmark concentration (BMC) modeling replaced LOEL analysis. 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