Latest

RIKEN

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·April 25, 2022·4 min read

A New Type of Cell Death Discovered in Fly Guts

Researchers have uncovered a new type of cell death that occurs in the guts of flies. The process, called erebosis, is believed to play a role in gut metabolism.

This shows a woman taking a nap on a tree limb by a lake with a book covering her face

Featured Neuroscience

·April 1, 2022·4 min read

Learning Gains While We Sleep Originate From the Learning Process Itself and Not Just From Using the Brain

Learning consolidation that occurs during sleep is a result of the learning process, and is not simply due to neural processes and brain regions associated with learning.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·February 9, 2022·3 min read

How Left and Right Hippocampal CA1 Regions in the Mouse Brain Talk With Each Other

Researchers have uncovered neural circuitry that allows the CA1 region of the hippocampus to communicate with its counterpart in the opposite hemisphere despite there being no connection between them.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·February 8, 2022·4 min read

Amylin Peptide in the Brain Senses Isolation and Drives Social Contact-Seeking Behavior

Contact-seeking behavior in mice is driven by amylin peptide in the medial preoptic area of the forebrain.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·January 14, 2022·4 min read

The Free-Energy Principle Explains the Brain

The free-energy principle can explain how neural networks minimize energy costs and are optimized for efficiency.

Featured Neuroscience

·December 28, 2021·3 min read

How the Hippocampus Orchestrates Memory Consolidation

Study reveals how the CA2 region of the hippocampus plays a key role in long-term memory consolidation.

Autism Featured Genetics Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·July 16, 2021·5 min read

A Direct Genetic Link to ASD Identified

Researchers identified a novel, direct link between autism and the SUV39H2 gene.

Featured Neuroscience

·June 23, 2021·5 min read

Melatonin in Mice: There’s More to This Hormone Than Sleep

In mice, natural melatonin is linked to a pre-hibernation state, allowing for a slower metabolism and survival when food is scarce or the temperature is too cold.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·June 1, 2021·4 min read

Why Moms Take Risks to Protect Their Infants

A mother's overwhelming desire to take risks in the face of danger to protect her child, and other nurturing behaviors, are driven by neurons in the cMPOA region of the hypothalamus which contains a protein called the calcitonin receptor.

This shows the outline of a woman's head

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·March 5, 2021·3 min read

Anti-Hyperlipidemia Drug Improves Brain Connectivity Schizophrenia

Fenofibrate, a drug developed to control cholesterol, alleviated brain and behavioral abnormalities in mouse models of schizophrenia.

This shows the location of the sum in the brain

Featured Neuroscience

·September 30, 2020·4 min read

Social Novelty Has a Special Place in the Brain

A specialized area of the mouse brain called the SuM specializes in detecting novel experiences. Within this brain area, responses to social novelty, or experiences related to unknown individuals, were segregated from those related to unfamiliar places, before being sent to areas of the brain associated with memory.