Bissen et al. show that prey capture learning profoundly reshapes visual cortical circuitry and function during developmental critical periods, but not in adulthood. These learning-induced structural ...

Recent work in rodent models provides mechanistic insights into how the excitability of principal neurons is dynamically regulated to facilitate the encoding and retrieval of emotionally salient memor...

Neural mechanisms underlying depression are not fully understood. This study identifies a prefrontal–thalamic–hippocampal circuit that links antidepressant-like behavior with restored neural plasticit...

A habit develops as a motivated behavior that is strengthened by extended experience and feedback. While the performance component of a habit is relatively well studied, being linked to action-related...

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Glutamate cotransmission predicts the behavioral functions and characteristics of dopaminergic neurons in the VTA.

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Psychedelic drugs show remarkable potential for treating psychiatric disorders, but the mechanisms underlying their therapeutic effects remain relatively unknown. Here, we demonstrate that psilocybin ...

Food intake is governed by two interacting drives. The homeostatic hunger drive regulates food intake to fulfill caloric needs while the hedonic drive promotes intake of palatable foods outside of cal...

Neuropsychopharmacology - Sex-dependent role of the ventral hippocampus, but not its projection to the medial prefrontal cortex, in a novel operant conflict-driven ethanol choice task

Throughout the mammalian cortex, populations of neurons must work together to enact behaviors. While population recordings in motor cortex have revealed many aspects of when neurons fire during behavi...

Learning how the matrix around cells and tissues impacts cancers

Congratulations to Dr. Zachary Pennington, an Assistant Professor in UBC’s Department of Psychology and researcher at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for

Job title: PhD-fellowship (301774), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Brain-wide transcriptomic profiling in mice reveals that reproductive experience remodels the maternal brain by altering dopamine dynamics in the dorsal hippocampal formation, causing dopamine-depende...

Combining a computational framework and optogenetic and chemogenetic manipulations within and downstream of the cortico-basal ganglia circuit identifies the specific cortico-basal ganglia synapse...

An improved genetically encoded GABA sensor enables the most effective direct optical measurement of inhibitory neurotransmission to date.

Humanized glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor (GLP1R) mouse models are used to investigate the neural circuitry through which small-molecule GLP1R agonists modulate feeding, with implicati...

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Hainmueller, Heynold, et al. studied the activity and synaptic interactions of different excitatory and inhibitory neuron types in the dentate gyrus of freely behaving mice. Bidirectional optogenetic ...

Neuropsychopharmacology - Adolescent obesity induces sex-specific alterations of action control

The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.