We used to think that the brain managed all stages of the sexual act, except for the final ejaculatory reflex, which is ...

For decades, it was thought that while the brain orchestrated male sexual behavior—arousal, courtship, and copulation—the spinal cord merely executed the final act: ejaculation. But a study from the ...

"This is the first neural circuit for temperature sensation in which the full pathway from the skin to the brain has been clearly identified." The cool signal activates when the skin is exposed to ...

Scientists have pinpointed Y1 receptor neurons in the brain that can override chronic pain signals when survival instincts ...

Taste, like other senses, is mediated by finely tuned circuits of neurons. These circuits are formed during embryonic development, when many extra neuronal synapses that will not exist in the fully ...

Waves of synchronized, coordinated neuronal activity have been observed and studied in the brain for over a century. But for ...

Using simulations, robots, and live fish, scientists at EPFL and Duke University have replicated the neural circuitry that ...