Neuroscience shows us the brain is hardwired to respond to beauty. Seeing an attractive face activates the brain's reward and ...

Depression imposes a major global socioeconomic burden, and current pharmacotherapies face several limitations, including slow efficacy, adverse effects, and non-response rates of up to 55%, ...

The cerebral cortex, the brain's outermost layer, is the epicenter of higher-level cognitive functions, sensory processing, ...

Soccer heading has long been suspected of impacting brain health, but exactly where and how it leaves a mark has been a blind spot. Now, for the first time, scientists have a clear picture of the ...

Overexpression of Shisa7 in the orbitofrontal cortex in drug-free rats induced comparable up and down changes in gene expression as that induced by the self-administration of heroin. The concordant ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered that smell and taste are inseparable much earlier in the brain than we thought. New research shows that odors can actually be coded as tastes in the ...

Adam Nelson, a principal investigator in the UW Department of Zoology and Physiology, led a study that used mice to show that social hierarchy involves status-dependent behavioral interactions that ...