University of California, Los Angeles researchers have discovered that chronic stress flips brain activity between two ...

Neural activity in the cortical amygdala determines whether mice engage in aggressive or pro-social behavior, according to a ...

New research now shows that mice also do this - at least to fellow mice that they know, sometimes even offering an effective form of first aid. For some time now, there have been reports that some ...

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 ...

By manipulating neural circuits in the brain of mice, scientists have altered the ... There is no existing technology to manipulate neurons in people as they did in their mouse experiments. However, ...

Physiologically, the mouse version of panic also involved ... exploring the relationships between these different brain circuits. “In the study, we showed that PACAP neurons in the lateral ...

Scientists have discovered a direct link between gut microbes and anxiety-related behaviour. Microbial metabolites, ...

New research shows that early life stress disrupts dopamine signaling, altering social motivation and behavior.

“It is a subregion in the amygdala that acts like the brain’s alarm system.” Later in the study, Le and his team tried ...