The research aims to understand motivated behaviors, such as why animals seek food or explore their environment. His lab has ...

The gene neuropilin2 encodes a receptor involved in cell-cell interactions in the brain and plays a key role in regulating the development of neural circuits. Neuropilin2 controls migration of ...

To survive in complex and unpredictable environments, humans and other animals need to learn to predict the consequences of ...

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust will trial a whole-brain computer interface to modulate ...

FAU neuroscientists have identified that the receptor IL-1R1 plays a critical role in enabling neurons to directly communicate with the immune system. The new study provides the most detailed mapping ...

A computational model explains how place cells in the hippocampus can be recruited to form any kind of episodic memory, even when there's no spatial component.

Male and female mice both prefer social interaction with female mice under normal conditions, but both switch to preferring males when their survival is threatened, according to a new study by Anqi ...

Male and female mice usually prefer female companions but switch to preferring males under survival stress, a new study ...

Researchers from Xi'an Jiaotong University and collaborating institutions in China have identified sexually dimorphic ...