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Astrocytes in the basolateral amygdala dynamically track fear state and support fear memory retrieval and extinction.

Humans and monkeys integrated experiential and observational evidence during a two-player task, and the anterior cingulate cortex combined the information sources into a unified neural belief representation that explains behavioural asymmetries.

Facial gestures are one fundamental set of communicative behaviors in primates, generated through the dynamic arrangement of many fine muscles. Anatomy shows that facial muscles are under direct contr...

Castellani et al. show that intranasal administration of oxytocin during the neonatal period alleviates behavioural and immune alterations in a mouse model

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Neuropsychopharmacology - VTA-ACC dopaminergic circuit mediates trait anxiety-related observational learning of social avoidance in male mice

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is essential for top-down control of affect and its dysfunction is implicated in many psychiatric disorders. Inhibitory interneurons expressing somatostatin have been impli...

A subset of neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex is shown to exert top-down regulation of adaptive innate reproductive behaviors by integrating social cues with estrous states to orchestrate socios...

Locus ceruleus (LC)–derived norepinephrine (NE) drives network and behavioral adaptations to environmental saliencies by reconfiguring circuit functional connectivity, but the underlying synapse-level...

A study of the cooperative breeding behaviour of superb starlings during 40 consecutive breeding seasons over 20 years reveals long-term reciprocal helping between both related and unrelated individua...

Inflammatory monocytes in the brain meninges promote stress-induced fear behaviour, and the pathways involved can be modulated using psychedelic compounds.

Neuroscientist Mark Mattson in conversations with other scientists at the forefront of brain research. Here are a few of the major questions that BRAIN PONDERINGS guests will tackle: How have brai...

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Translational Psychiatry - Layer-specific input to medial prefrontal cortex is linked to stress susceptibility

Synaptic plasticity underlies learning by modifying specific synaptic inputs to reshape neural activity and behavior. However, the rules governing which synapses will undergo different forms of plasti...

Aggression is a complex behavior influenced by developmental experiences, internal state, and social context, yet its neurobiological underpinnings re…

Abstract. Collective decision making using simple social interactions has been studied in many types of multiagent systems, including robot swarms and huma

A large consortium of scientists adds functional data to neuronal wiring maps, seeking to crack the computational circuitry of the mouse brain.

With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it.

Physical social defeat stress models are widely used to study chronic stress. In contrast, witnessing social defeat, observing aggression without direct involvement, is less studied but has growing re...

The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is key to processing value. Rather than molecularly grouping VTA neurons, the authors functionally parse two neuronal ensembles (reward/stress), and show their indispe...

Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can be trivial (the combination’s meaning is the sum ...

Fear arises directly or vicariously, with the LC-NA system involved in both. Here, the authors show that the right LC → ACC pathway is key for vicarious fear, while BNST and CeA provide distinct input...

Certain cognitive processes require inhibition provided by the somatostatin (SST) class of GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) neurons in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). This inhibition onto py...

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Recognizing conspecifics—others of the same species—in order to determine how to interact with them appropriately is a fundamental goal of animal sens…

Changes to the female brain during menopause, together with social and cultural factors, might affect disease risk.