Avoiding a diet rich in simple sugars during treatment with antibiotics may mitigate microbiota disruption.

Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling - Volume 49

Models and interventions of cognition.

In der Sektion für Medizinische Psychologie der Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Universitätsklinikums Bonn ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt folgende Stelle in Teilzeit (6...

Human decision-makers differ in how they value and trade off reward, risk, and information when evaluating future gains and losses, and these preferences are central to well-being. However, how multi-...

Animals must balance exploration with threat avoidance, yet how neuromodulatory signals shape information-seeking states remains unclear. Using fibre photometry recordings in the basolateral amygdala ...

Neuropsychopharmacology - Translating macaque frontopolar cortex discoveries into psychiatric treatments

Laboratory stress tasks are widely used to assess individual differences in acute stress reactivity, yet it remains unclear how these responses correspond to stress experienced in everyday life. Here,...

Hands-on tutorials for the book Elements of fMRI Analysis: runnable MATLAB and Python code, thought questions, and self-quizzes for all 42 chapters.

People are effort-averse in most situations but can exert effort for little reward when progressing towards goals. Here, the authors show that under deadline pressure people become effort-seeking whil...

PhD Position in Ultra-High-Field Layer fMRI of Cognitive Control and Interoception

Although research into how inflammation mediates the effects of stress on disorders such as heart disease and depression has grown rapidly, standard l…

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 13 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02548-8Weber et al. show that the normally conserved spatial organization of the digit response maps in primary somatosensory cortex is altered in patients with surgically repaired hand nerves.

Nature Neuroscience - Charbonneau et al. compare how the insula is structured and functions in humans, monkeys and rodents, revealing similarities and differences across species that are likely to...

The basolateral amygdala dopamine system has received little attention. Here, authors show that BLA dopamine plays a unique role in learning, by encoding the emotional salience of sensory cues to supp...

Translational Psychiatry - Arousal shapes motivation: an integrative framework for understanding motivational deficits

Thompson, Rollik and colleagues show that, during sleep, the brain replays procedural memories in the striatum independently of the hippocampus. Replay content was shaped by prior reward and error out...