Acute stress and anxiety can suppress pain, here we reveal a multi-nodal circuit in the brain that connects the two.

Behavior is a major determinant of the activity of auditory midbrain neurons and can shape their responses independently of input from the auditory cortex.

Gerbils exhibit stable, family-specific vocal dialects over weeks, suggesting vocal communication may play a key role in representing kinship in natural social groups.

Pain expectation processing shifts from uniform anticipatory activation to valence-specific differentiation during sensory input.