Social difficulties in people with autism are exacerbated by how other people perceive them at first meeting, researchers report.
Researchers report facial recognition varies by where they appear in the visual field, and this variability is reduces through learning familiar faces via social interactions. The study reports repeated social interactions tune visual neurons in the face processing network to enable consistent and rapid rapid recognition of familiar faces.
A new wireless, battery-less brain implant that harnesses optogenetics can manipulate social interactions in mice.
New research settles how the brain makes sense of actions it witnesses others performing in daily life.
Researchers report they are able to see alterations in gene expression up to two hours after a stickleback fish interacts with an intruder. They speculate the changes in gene expression and chromatin modification could help set up the brain to respond to future threats. The study appears in PLOS Genetics.
Researchers report levels of social impairment remain stable for those with psychosis, years after their first hospitalization.
The motivation to invest in social interactions is closely linked to the reward system via the activation of dopaminergic neurons.
