Mouse study identifies brain region that can prevent aggressive social behavior and induce ...
Neural activity in the cortical amygdala determines whether mice engage in aggressive or pro-social behavior, according to a ...
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Mouse Central Amygdala (IMAGE)
A cross-section of a mouse brain. The area highlighted red is the midbrain dopamine region that neuroscientists believe controls reward learning. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute10 年
New research by HHMI scientists shows that the emotional memory of an experience is malleable.
“The amygdala can store information with either a positive or negative valence, and associate it with a memory,” Tonegawa explains. Last year, Tonegawa and his colleagues reportedexternal link, opens ...
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Dysfunction of neurons in the amygdala may be behind negative perceptions of the environment
The researchers studied the activity of the amygdala in a mouse model for depression. Like depressed bipolar patients, these mouse models exhibited behavior characterized by anxiety and stress ...
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Mouse study shows gut microbes’ connection to anxiety
Scientists have discovered a direct link between gut microbes and anxiety-related behaviour. Microbial metabolites, ...
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Positive emotions plus deep sleep equals longer-lasting perceptual memories
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan have uncovered how perceptual memories linked to positive ...
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Neurons in amygdala found to regulate social behavior with strangers
These neurons, which are located in the central nucleus of the amygdala, express a receptor ... the overexpression of the human NPBWR1 gene in mouse NPBWR1 neurons prevented the typical increase ...