It's a regular occurrence when taking our canine pals for drizzly walks and summer swims. But until recently, the biology ...

By Laurent Perrinet, CNRS researcher in Computational Neuroscience, Aix-Marseille University (AMU) When we observe an ...

Mirror neurons, discovered in the early 1990s, also play a role by allowing us to experience others' emotions as if they were our own, facilitating empathy – a key driver of altruistic behaviour, ...

A study appearing in Nature Neuroscience has linked distinct neural and behavioral characteristics in autism spectrum ...

New research has shown that some neurons that do not express leptin receptors are still sensitive to its activity.

Interoception research reveals how gut-brain communication via neural, hormonal, and microbial pathways regulates metabolism, ...

Apart from enteroendocrine cells, sensory neurons connecting to enteric motor neurons and vagus nerve fibers, also express ...

Researchers from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences have uncovered the first example of activity-dependent development of ...

Working with week-old zebrafish larva, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and colleagues decoded how the connections ...

Researchers from the lab of Richard Simerly have uncovered the first example of activity-dependent development of ...

Researchers from the lab of Richard Simerly have uncovered the first example of activity-dependent development of hypothalamic neural circuitry. The work also suggests a novel role for the hunger ...