A recent study published in Nature Communications provides evidence that an evolutionarily ancient group of brainstem neurons ...

Scientists have discovered a tiny group of neurons in an ancient brain region that acts like a built-in focus filter, helping ...

Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to stop eating. The findings appear in a paper, "Brainstem Neuropeptidergic Neurons Link a Neurohumoral ...

Satiety, the sensation of being full, or sated, is an important neurobiological process for maintaining body weight, but individuals can still have the desire to eat sweet, high-sugar-containing foods ...

A new study from the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience researchers may help explain an enduring mystery about ...

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them, and each mind perceives a different beauty” (David Hume, 1711–1776 1). The value of a reward is in the ...

Researchers discover that the GPR3 receptor acts as an immediate-early gene to jumpstart neuron and synapse development.

Learned associations between environmental cues and the outcomes they predict (cue-outcome associations) play a major role in behavioral control, guiding not only which responses we should perform, ...

Once thought to play a supporting function in the brain, new research shows non-neuronal astroglial cells perform a leading role in regulating the activity of neurons and their connections. In 2019, ...

Specialized neurons and vellus-like hair in mice signal mechanical itch in response to touch, paving the way for chronic itch treatments.

A new mouse study suggests fructose sends a weaker fullness signal than glucose. Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center looked at how the two sugars communicate with the brain through the ...

Imagine you're navigating a city like New York, or any other that's laid out on a grid. Suppose you run into a roadblock as you're heading north. How do you know that you can turn to your left, say, ...