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Image shows a segment of a C. elegans worm with a RIM neuron shown.

Featured Neuroscience

·February 12, 2016·5 min read

How Young Brains Form Lifelong Memories

By studying the eating habits of C. elegans, researchers gain an insight into how lifelong memories can be formed.

Image shows concentric rings in a fruit fly larva’s antenna.

Featured Genetics Open Neuroscience Articles

·February 6, 2016·4 min read

Same Switches Program Taste and Smell in Fruit Flies

Researchers have identified a set of genetic control switches that interact early in a fly's development to generate dozens of types of olfactory neurons.

Featured Neuroscience

·January 14, 2016·5 min read

Independent Working Memory Systems in Animals

A new study confirm that a key aspect of human memory impaired in memory disorders exists in the type of pre-clinical animal models that influence major decisions about drug development.

Featured Psychology

·January 9, 2016·6 min read

Oh Baby! Understanding Pregnancy Brain

A new paper looks at the neuroscience of pregnancy and suggests the 'pregnancy brain' really does exist.

Image shows mushroom bodies and kenyon cells.

Featured Neuroscience

·December 17, 2015·4 min read

Rerouting Odor Information to Produce Flexible Behavior

A new study shows how dopamine can help change the flow of information in the brain.

Image shows a dopamine nueon in the mushroom body of the fruit fly.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·December 2, 2015·4 min read

Observing Synaptic Plasticity While Flies Learn

Researchers present evidence of synaptic plasticity in the fruit fly brain as the animal learns.

Image shows brain connections in normal weight and obese children.

Featured Neuroscience

·November 24, 2015·2 min read

Impulse Areas of Brain Activated in Obese Children by Food Odors

According to a new study, the area of the brain associated with impulsivity and the development of OCD is activated in obese children when they smell food.