Researchers found that neurons involved in parental care also activate during comforting behavior in mice. The circuit links ...

Humans and animals share a remarkable capacity to sense when others are in distress and respond with comforting behavior. But ...

Tthe brain's parenting circuitry (MPOA) drives helping and comforting behaviors toward peers through the dopamine reward ...

The field of systems neuroscience increasingly seeks to understand how distributed neural populations interact to support complex cognitive functions such ...

Rising temperatures shorten battery life, but devices are improving fast enough to resist the ravages of climate change.

Sasha S. Rao and Todd M. Hopfinger of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC discuss challenges in meeting patent law's disclosure requirements for inventions involving artificial intelligence, ...

Researchers report building photonic computing chips that use light pulses to train spiking neural networks on robotic-control-style benchmark tasks, aiming to shift more of the learning workload from ...

A growing body of neuroimaging research is pinpointing exactly how psychedelic drugs hijack the brain’s visual system to produce vivid hallucinations, even when a person’s eyes are closed. Studies ...

A new genomic study isolates a mania-specific factor that explains over 80% of bipolar disorder’s genetic risk, tying it to ...

Cocaine addiction isn’t simply a failure of willpower — it’s the result of lasting biological changes in the brain.

The University of Florence has secured funding for five projects under the competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral ...

A conserved glucagon signaling pathway links high-fat diet-induced metabolic imbalance to cardiac arrhythmia through hormone-producing cells and heart-innervating neurons that regulate rhythmicity.