Alterations in long-term social behavior and gene expression were observed in the offspring of mice exposed to pain-killing opioids during pregnancy.
Sleep twitches help enrich the encoding of sensory information in newborn rats, laying the groundwork for later motor function.
A study of people learning to read braille reveals how white matter reorganizes itself across different brain regions and timeframes to meet the brain's needs.
Connections between oxytocin neurons in the hypothalamus and dopamine neurons in the reward system drive parenting behaviors in both male and female voles.
Specific hippocampal neurons may be involved in time-related memory encoding. Findings reveal the human brain contains time-tracking neurons.
Temporal sound processing can be maintained in mouse models of congenital hearing loss with exposure to broadband sounds embedded with pauses, a new study reports.
Foxes bred to be either tame or aggressive had increased size in similar brain regions, a new study reports. The animals bred for specific behavioral traits had larger brains than those that were conventionally bred. The findings contradict existing theories of animal domestication.
Stressed male mice can pass down their behaviors to their offspring via alterations in their sperm's DNA, a new study reports.
White lies that are selfish in nature elicit increased activity in both the ventral and rostral medial prefrontal cortex.
In-person interactions strengthen neural signals related to facial recognition.
The default mode network is divided into separate sub-systems for constructing and evaluating imagined scenarios.
Brain regions associated with spatial processing also appear to govern and encode information about social relationships.
