The brain constantly toggles between focusing on external sensory information and internal mental representations like memories, plans, and thoughts.

In animals with social structures, the drive to reproduce is a complex process; governed by the brain, it's influenced by ...

Fundamentalists don’t necessarily examine evolution and then reject it; they tend to start with the conclusion that it must ...

In a study published in Cell on July 10, researchers reported the first comprehensive study of whole-brain projectomes of the ...

Oxytocin is a hormone linked to bonding of all kinds—maternal, familial, romantic, social. In mice, the team found, the ...

Researchers at Mount Sinai discovered that a long non-coding RNA, LINC00473, promotes resilience to depression in females by ...

CRISPR construct to genetically ablate the GABA transporter GAT3 in the mouse visual cortex, with effects on population-level neuronal activity. This work is important, as it sheds light on how GAT3 ...

This study identifies astrocyte-intrinsic mechanisms by which the LRRK2 G2019S, a mutation linked to familial Parkinson's disease, disrupts synaptic integrity in the anterior cingulate cortex. The ...