This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.

Study finds middle age changes how brains respond to weight loss. Brain inflammation increased during dieting despite ...

This study offers important insight into the pathogenic basis of intragenic frameshift deletions in the carboxy-terminal domain of MECP2, which account for some Rett syndrome cases, yet similar ...

Mice search for food sources, shelter, and warmth. The boxes of donations in your garage and your pet's leftovers may be secretly attracting mice to take up residence in your home.

When scientists opened the doors of a research facility and let carefully bred lab mice loose into a fenced field, they ...

For generations, laboratory mice have lived and died under fluorescent lights, their world reduced to plastic cages and ...

To measure mouse fear and anxiety, scientists use a classic tool called the “elevated plus maze.” It looks just like it ...

A new study shows lab mice become less anxious after living outdoors, even reversing existing fear in just one week.

New research tracks how THC exposure during pregnancy disrupts fetal brain development and leads to sustained structural ...

Advances in technology have greatly accelerated scientific understanding of vision and the brain. Researchers can now ...

It's that period when darkness dominates almost constantly, with evenings growing increasingly cold. Whilst we begin withdrawing indoors more frequently during the winter period, various creatures are ...