A region of the brain called the paraventricular thalamus mediates the impact of stress on unlearned fear responses, but is not involved in learned fear behavior.
Exercise intensity alone does not differentially reduce pain, but individual factors like fitness level and sex, along with opioid mechanisms, may influence exercise-induced pain relief.
Isaïh Schwab-Mohamed, Manuel R Mercier ... Daniele Schön
Fine-grained neural dynamics underlying speech coordination are revealed using a real-time interactive synchronous speech task that dissociates functional roles within the dorsal language pathway.
Increasing CD11c+ microglial subsets in the spinal dorsal horn by intrathecal treatment of interleukin-4 alleviate pain hypersensitivity caused by nerve injury.
Christopher R Lee, Gillian A Matthews ... Kay M Tye
Optogenetic manipulations and neural circuit interrogation reveal that dorsal raphe dopamine circuits can emulate different facets of a loneliness-like state, including prosociality, aversion, and vigilance.
