Rats exchange information about danger in a reciprocal fashion, and this information transfer is at least partially mediated by a brain region called the anterior cingulate cortex. Rats exchange ...

Why is it that we can get sad, when we see someone else crying? Why is it that we wince, when a friend cuts his finger? Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have found that the ...

A study published in Nature Communications reports that a key function of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is to help the brain adapt to performing new tasks. When the researchers changed the rules ...

A new research paper was published in Volume 17, Issue 9 of Aging-US on August 22, 2025, titled, "The impact of long-term social housing on biconditional association task performance and neuron ...

Why is it that we get sad when we see someone crying and wince when a friend cuts his finger? Do animals feel this emotional contagion as we do? An experiment published today in the leading journal ...

Source: Vadim.t, via Wikimedia commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have demonstrated that specific neurons in the rat brain ...

“This study was designed to investigate the effect of long-term social housing on cognitive decline and neuron ensemble activity dynamics in old age” “This study was designed to investigate the effect ...