The way the brain develops can shape us throughout our lives, so neuroscientists are intensely curious about how it happens. A new study by researchers in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory ...

For example, a team at Caltech has identified two distinct types of neurons in the abdomens of mice that appear to control different aspects of digestion. The finding, reported in the journal Nature, ...

Cornell neuroscientists have identified a group of midbrain neurons essential to social vocalizations produced by mice—but not the squeaks they make when distressed. The findings suggest that in mice, ...