Physical pain is essential for survival, as it allows animals to detect when they are injured or unwell, seek shelter and ...

Neural circuits associated with three cortical regions in cognitive generalization with different manifestations from different species. (A) Emotionrelated brain regions mainly project to PFC and OFC; ...

Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) School of Engineering have developed a novel reinforcement learning–based generative model to predict neural signals, creating ...

The entorhinal-hippocampal system constitutes a pivotal neural circuit in the central nervous system. It is critically involved in processing spatial learning and memory. However, the specific neural ...

The importance of learning to recognize and respond to impending threat is widely appreciated, but the related process of discriminating cues that signal the absence of threat is often overlooked.

The representation of stimulus identity and experience is transformed from primary olfactory cortex to memory-related multisensory areas in the hippocampus.

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a novel pathway to wake up dormant neural stem cells, ...

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of the most prominent human nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body’s skin to the ...

Because unpleasant withdrawal symptoms fuel nicotine addiction’s high relapse rate, targeting their underlying mechanisms with treatments may promote continued abstinence from the drug. In a new ...

Scientists discovered that sleep deprivation damages a key brain circuit responsible for social memory, making it harder to recognize familiar individuals. In laboratory studies, caffeine restored ...

Research indicates that repetition and distributed practice effectively fires and rewires the brain, thereby strengthening memory and improving learning potential. This approach aims to develop and ...