To map the mammalian brain and its various functions with increasing precision, neuroscientists rely on high-resolution imaging techniques and other advanced experimental tools. These include ...

A new study reveals that oxytocin’s ability to enhance social behavior depends heavily on the recipient’s motivation.

A University of Wyoming researcher led a study that used mice to show that social hierarchy involves status-dependent ...

Owen, now at Western University in London, Canada, and his colleagues had introduced a new way to test for consciousness.

The basal ganglia in rats uses separate codes for learned movements and “natural” behaviors, offering insights into human ...

According to a new study by Harvard researchers, the basal ganglia—the so-called “learning machine” of the brain—speaks in two different codes: one for recently-acquired learned movements and another ...

Among the many wonders of the brain is its ability to master learned movements—a dance step, piano sonata, or tying our shoes ...

A new microscope combines ultrafast light pulses with sound detection to map single-cell molecular activity far deeper than ...

Researchers have discovered that stress hormones pulse every hour, driving shifts in mood, energy, and wakefulness.

Most food-dye molecules are too large to cross the blood brain barrier and do not affect brain function. The toxicity of food ...

These patterns of activity are so complex that they are best described as geometric objects in high-dimensional spaces. One example of such an object is a torus, which resembles a donut.

A new Neuron meta-analysis suggests brains operate at a “critical point” between chaos and order—optimizing memory, learning, ...