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Touch-mediated social interactions in human females elicited endogenous oxytocin and brain responses in a covariant manner, and these changes were modulated by the familiarity of the person delivering touch as well as the recent history of social interaction.

The absence of generally assumed strong correlations between striatal dopamine synthesis capacity and simple indices of working memory capacity, trait impulsivity, and spontaneous eye-blink rate warrants caution for using these traits as proxy measures to replace direct striatal dopamine assessments.

By examining the relationship between spike timing and the phase of the LFP across cortical layers, researchers can use a stereotyped phase-coupling pattern as a diagnostic marker for electrode depth when other methods of electrode placement are ambiguous.

Dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens in mice encodes the rate and magnitude of rapid environmental luminance changes rather than visual stimulus novelty or threat intensity.

Mice can learn to press a lever persistently for activation of a dopaminergic projection from the locus coeruleus to the hippocampal dentate gyrus.

A genetic knock-in mouse model reveals that the endocrine state governs the effect of the common fatty acid amide hydrolase C385A variant on body weight through a hypothalamic-mediated mechanism.

A compact neural network can form various associative memories that are encoded in a distributed manner, where each neuron stores different components of the memory.

A new developmental model of cognitive-emotional adaptation in midlife builds on current findings from lifespan psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and research in late-life depression.

Various aspects of olfactory memory are represented as modulated responses across different classes of neurons in C. elegans.

Retinal motion patterns during locomotion are shaped by gait, gaze location, and the terrain, and these motion patterns may influence the way motion sensitivity and receptive field properties vary across the visual field.