Study: From Nutritional Patterns to Behavior: High-Fat Diet Influences on Inhibitory Control, Brain Gene Expression ... Nevertheless, the nucleus accumbens of the mesolimbic pathway stimulates ...

For example, in rat pups, lack of maternal care can ... Studies have also shown that reward-generating areas of the brain—such as the nucleus accumbens, where dopamine signals originate ...

4 China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China 5 National Research Center for Rehabilitation Technical Aids, Beijing, China 6 Chinese Institute for Brain Research ...

The brain’s amygdala recognizes the emotional significance of the cue and increases its rate of firing; then, a tide of dopamine released in the goal-oriented nucleus accumbens drives the ...

Brain samples contained 10 times more microplastics than other organs. The brain may contain higher -- and more significant -- amounts of microplastics than other organs in the body, according to ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...

A comprehensive atlas of the human hypothalamus, a brain region that regulates many ... We used single-nucleus RNA sequencing to construct a cellular catalogue from more than 400,000 human ...

A man with paralysis who had electrodes implanted in his brain can pilot a virtual drone through an obstacle course simply by imagining moving his fingers. His brain signals are interpreted by an ...

Two subway stations in the neighborhood claimed the top two spots for rat sightings on a popular app over the last 30 days. The 116th Street subway station has been crowned the rattiest of all ...

In the first study of its kind, scientists found a correlation between climate change and a rise in urban rat populations. A rat scurries across West Broadway in New York City. A study looking at ...

We then discuss examples of how brain targets for DBS have been developed using translational research, focusing on the subthalamic nucleus (STN) and the brainstem pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN ...

Rat populations have spiked in cities with warming temperatures resulting from climate change or urban heat islands, found a study released Friday in the journal Science Advances. Researchers ...