Gut bacteria create smells that influence behavior, shaping aggression and social hierarchy through the brain.

For decades, sharks have been cast as the ultimate solitary predators — cold, instinct-driven “killing machines” that roam ...

A team of neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania has, for the first time, observed how social behavior is encoded in the brain when monkeys are doing normal, everyday things rather than ...

In a new study, Northwestern University neurobiologists discovered that gut bacteria and the nose work together to shape ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

For people with autism, constipation, diarrhea, and abdominal pain often go along with the social struggles and repetitive behaviors that define the condition. This has prompted many to wonder whether ...

Spread the loveThe rise of social media has coincided with a troubling increase in mental health issues among adolescents. Recent insights from neuroscience reveal that the developing teenage brain, ...

Bottom Line: Neural activity in the cortical amygdala determines whether mice engage in aggressive or pro-social behavior Results: By performing a network analysis on whole-brain activity of male mice ...

Transcription factors that tune the expression of multiple genes could be key players in regulating behavior, but scientists need to scout for them. Peter Hamilton, a neuroscientist at Virginia ...