“Area 32” balances activity from cognitive and emotional brain areas in primates. Navigating through life requires balancing emotion and reason, a feat accomplished by the…
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Contrary to previous theories, fear and anxiety reflect shared neural building blocks. Fear and anxiety reflect overlapping brain circuits, according to research published today (September…
Prenatal depression symptoms were associated with weakened white matter tracts in the cingulum (left) and amygdala pathway (right). Credit: Hay et al., JNeurosci 2020 Weakened…
Lifting Weights Makes Your Nervous System Stronger, Too The first few weeks of weightlifting strengthen the reticulospinal tract, not muscles. Gym-goers may get frustrated when…
Reconstructions of adult-born neurons. Left to right: age 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 6 weeks, and 24 weeks. Adult-born neurons continue to undergo significant morphological modifications…
Feeling disconnected from others is reflected by how the brain represents relationships. Social media sites aren’t the only things that keep track of your social…
The five monkey faces (left to right): wireframe, greyscale, furless, naturalistic, and real-life footage. Four expressions (top to bottom): neutral, fear grin, lip smacking, threat.…
Fluctuating estrogen levels may make alcohol more rewarding to female mice, according to new research in JNeurosci. Untangling the involved signaling pathways could unveil sex-based treatments…
Frontoparietal activation reflects individual working memory abilities. Credit: Rosenberg et al., JNeurosci 2020 Brain network activity predicts working memory abilities during development. A child’s unique…
Strengthened amygdala pathways increase aggression, may be targets for PTSD treatment. Traumatic stress can cause aggression by strengthening two brain pathways involved in emotion, according…
Increased levels of serotonin transporters in the amygdala may be to blame. Anxiety-prone people can blame serotonin cleanup proteins gone awry in their amygdala, according…
Tubulin traps important signaling molecules, leads to reduced brain messaging. Scientists have zeroed in on a structural protein as a new target for the diagnosis…
The membrane voltage of TIDA neurons oscillates more during lactation (right). Credit: Thörn Pérez et al., JNeurosci 2020 Prolactin-controlling neurons in mice undergo reversible changes…
Brain waves indicate how you will respond to your bias — even before you have a choice to make. The strength of alpha brain waves…
Monitoring how a sheep’s sleep changes during the progression of a brain disease may one day translate to sleep-based diagnosis in humans. A specific brain…
Binaural beats are created by the brain while monoaural beats appear on the sound file. Credit: Orozco Perez et al., eNeuro 2020 Auditory illusion may…
Research in children and young adults shows that iron levels in brain tissue rise during development and are correlated with cognitive abilities. Brain iron levels…
Model of neurotransmitter plasticity in the ventral dorsal raphe in response to chronic social stress. Credit: Prakash et al., JNeurosci 2019 Changes in neurotransmission may…
Findings reveal how CBD and THC levels impact side effects of cannabis. High levels of cannabidiol (CBD) in cannabis can offset the neuropsychiatric effects of…
Musical information flowed from sensory to frontal regions during listening and from frontal to sensory regions during recall. Credit: Ding et al., JNeurosci (2019) Listening…