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5d ago
Sympathetic neurons pepper the embryos of the jawless fish—Earth’s first vertebrates—and overturn the idea that “fight or flight” was an innovation of jawed vertebrates.
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1w ago
The Dartmouth College researcher talks about her quest to understand behavior and doing neuroscience “in the woods.”
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3w ago
The facility’s institutional review board failed to report a 2021 incident and “serious and ongoing noncompliance” by a principal investigator, according to a letter released by the federal agency this week.
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3w ago
We found an issue with a specific type of brain imaging study and tried to share it with the field. Then the backlash began.
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1M ago
Technological advancements have made it possible to study animals in more natural settings, but researchers are debating what that really means and whether natural is always better.
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1M ago
The link reported in prior studies likely reflects confounding factors, which sibling-matched controls in the new work address.
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1M ago
The U.S. National Institutes of Health wants to regulate research involving cephalopods. But there aren’t enough rigorous studies to base the regulations on, veteran cephalopod researchers say.
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1M ago
Activity in the tiny brain region helps submissive rodents learn to avoid aggressors, and aggressive mice to curb their attacks, according to two recent studies.
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The award-winning researcher’s discoveries have changed the way we think about the brain; that’s exactly what her critics dislike.
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1M ago
The cerebellum swelled in size before flight evolved among modern birds’ dinosaur ancestors, according to a new comparison of fossilized skulls and living birds.
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