Brain’s Kappa-Opioid Switch: New Map Reveals How Dynorphin Circuits Drive Depression and Anxiety
A new review maps how the kappa-opioid receptor/dynorphin system acts as a circuit-specific switch in the brain's fear and reward ...
Tag: neural circuits
Emmy Noether Award Brings Insect Brain Evolution Researcher to Mainz
Evolutionary neurobiologist Max Farnworth has joined Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from Bristol to lead a DFG-funded Emmy Noether group investigating ...
Electric Fish Wiring Map Reveals How Brains Learn to Predict Their Own Senses
A complete wiring diagram of an electric fish cerebellum-like circuit reveals how structured synaptic connectivity enables fast, accurate and continually ...
The Cerebellum Predicts and Delivers Rewards, Redefining Its Role in Motivation
New research shows that cerebellar granule cells predictively encode delayed dopamine rewards while climbing fibers provide instructive reward signals that ...
How the Brain’s Cortex Reaches Agreement: Reciprocal Circuits Build Consensus Across Areas
New research in Nature Neuroscience shows that reciprocal connections between neocortical areas dynamically reweight their communication to build consensus across ...
BD2 Commits Over $13 Million to Decode Mood Switching in Bipolar Disorder
BD² has awarded more than $13 million in new grants to research teams at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford to ...
Distance Rules Shape the Hidden Wiring of Local Cortical Networks
A new modeling study shows that distance-dependent wiring rules produce clustered, low-cost cortical network structures that differ fundamentally from randomly ...
Lactate Signals and RNA Tags May Shape Post-Hemorrhage Depression, Review Proposes
A new review proposes that histone lactylation and m6A RNA methylation may link acute brain hemorrhage to long-term depression, anxiety, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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