Researchers at Columbia University have discovered a unique group of neurons in the mouse brain that command the animal to ...

Studies reveal important principles through which the brainstem regulates satiation, and begin to shed light on the neural determinants of meal size.

Neurons in the brains of mice tell them to stop eating when they’ve had enough food – and since people probably have the same ...

Mark Botton: I study the responses of marine invertebrates to environmental stresses such as ... My lab develops new machine learning and statistical methods to help understand neural processing and ...

The brain of humans and other animals is known to contribute to the protection of the body from infections. Past studies have unveiled the existence of the so-called conditioned immune response (CIR), ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

A University of Ottawa neuroscientist has led a Canadian research team to reveal important new insights into the activation ...

JERUSALEM, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Israeli researchers have identified a neural circuit that enables the brain to regulate immune system activity through associative learning. The study, led by the ...

Cut off any part of this worm's body and it will regrow. This is the spectacular yet mysterious regenerative ability of ...

Researcher suggest findings could help understand what happens in the brain when fear response regulation is impaired.