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

This study presents a fundamental discovery of how cerebellar climbing fibers modulate plastic changes in the somatosensory cortex by identifying both the responsible cortical circuit and the ...

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 ...

Abstract: Brains evolve within specific sensory and physical environments, yet neuroscience has traditionally focused on ...

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 ...

Empathy (feeling what we witness others feel) and compassion (motivation to help others triggered by empathy for their ...

Researchers found that the psychedelic compound DOI strengthens connections between the claustrum and anterior cingulate ...