Oxytocin has been the subject of much research that has greatly expanded our understanding of its role in integrating ...

A new Neuron perspective reveals that stress can both disrupt and promote sleep, with specific brain circuits making ...

In a study published in Neuron, a research team led by Prof. Wang Liping from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology ...

Research provides new insights into how the brain forms habits and explains why they can be so difficult to break.

Creativity isn’t a bolt of lightning. It’s a series of neural negotiations among brain networks that imagine, evaluate, ...

A new study published in the journal Neuron provides evidence that biological sex differences in brain function and hormone ...

This article dives into how dopamine, oxytocin and cortisol are reacting to our digital desire and emotional bonding.

They identified two distinct defensive behaviors-sustained rapid escape (T1) and rapid habituation (T2). T1 involves superior colliculus (SC)/insular cortex-ventral tegmental area (VTA)-basolateral ...

A mechanism involving potassium channels in the brain that control brain cell activity could provide a new and fundamentally different way of treating depression symptoms in adults with major ...

What you do on date night matters, though. To trigger the desired brain activity, novelty and intense experiences matter.

Neuroscientists at the Sainsbury Wellcome Center (SWC) at UCL have discovered that the brain uses a dual system for learning through trial and error. This is the first time a second learning system ...