Researchers identified two brain areas in mice that helped the animals learn to suppress their instinctive fears of predators ...

After a week of stress, mice show changes in how their brains process sound, reducing how well they perceive loud noises, ...

If you aren’t a good listener when you’re stressed, you aren’t alone. Mice aren’t either.

While stress is an unfortunate fact of modern life, scientists are still learning how it affects us. Chronic stress, in ...

For pet and lab mice, running wheels are a common feature, often used to encourage exercise. However, some scientists have argued that mice only run on these wheels because they live in cages and that ...

Last year, $10 million in taxpayer money was spent creating transgender animals, according to Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., citing ...

The brain of humans and other animals is known to contribute to the protection of the body from infections. Past studies have ...

This “cognitive perspective” lies at the heart of The Forgotten Sense. How we experience a smell or taste depends both on our ...

A member of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Mace, has laid out the misuse of taxpayer money funding "gender ...

A new study in an animal model provides direct evidence for the role of the vagus nerve in gut microbiome-brain communication, addressing a critical gap in the field.

Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to stop eating. Though many feeding circuits in the brain are known to play a role in monitoring food ...