In a first of its kind study, Tufts University School of Medicine researchers demonstrate that interfering with the neural circuits responsible for emotional decisions can increase or decrease ...

Researchers have revealed neural circuits in the brainstem that are crucially involved in implementing decisions by controlling three fundamental behavioral states or strategies: perseverance ...

After nine years of painstaking work, an international team of researchers on Wednesday published a precise map of the vision centers of a mouse brain, revealing the exquisite structures and ...

Their findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, suggest that the compound prompts the reorganization of neural circuits in the retrosplenial cortex, a part of the brain located in the posterior ...

In the brain, molecular information is transmitted between cells through neural circuits. Synapses establish connections between the pathways that run from one area to another, allowing the most ...

The collaborative team led by the University of Ottawa's Dr. Armen Saghatelyan aimed to shed light on how neural stem cells integrate a multitude of signals from different cell types in the brain ...

More information: Ming-Dong Zhang et al, Neural ensembles that encode nocifensive mechanical and heat pain in mouse spinal cord, Nature Neuroscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-01921-6.

Studying the neural pathways of pain perception is technically challenging in animal models and humans. Information about painful stimuli is conveyed to the brain via the ascending somatosensory ...

Curious to learn more about the neurons that regulate sleep, the researchers first mapped neural circuits upstream of known sleep-promoting brain regions in mice. After identifying 11 candidate ...