Meet The Fish That Can Change Its Sex. Hint: It Happens When Another Fish Disappears

In response to social cues, individual clownfish will switch sexes. Cutting-edge research reveals the neural and genetic ...

Common drug residues trigger synaptic damage in fish brains

Behavioral assays linked these molecular disturbances to functional outcomes. Exposed fish displayed increased locomotor activity, heightened anxiety-like behavior, and altered learning performance, ...
eLife

Compressed sensing-based approach identifies modular neural circuitry driving learned pathogen avoidance

An efficient neural screening approach rapidly identifies circuit modules governing distinct behavioral transitions in ...
Medical Xpress

Mice use their tongues to 'see' tactile targets: Neural pathway discovery could help treat neurological disorders

Chewing a bagel while reading the morning news, speaking while driving, dislodging a piece of food stuck between two teeth: In these and other tasks, the tongue and the brain coordinate intricate ...

Astrocytes, not just neurons, found to drive fear memory signals in the amygdala

Picture a star-shaped cell in the brain, stretching its spindly arms out to cradle the neurons around it. That's an astrocyte ...
Ars Technica

Researchers isolate memorization from problem-solving in AI neural networks

When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or ...
GEN

Key Neural Pain-Sensing Pathway Recreated in a Lab Dish

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of the most prominent human nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body’s skin to the ...