Researchers uncover how the fruitless gene steers brain development and social feeding behavior in male honeybees.

Researchers developed a liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) assay for the simultaneous measurement of 11 types of estrogen from song sparrows using derivatization with ...

A variety of studies are showing that rough-and-tumble play is important for animals and kids alike.

Dog dementia is not a rare curiosity, it is a common age-related brain disease that quietly affects a large share of senior ...

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have been diagnosed from the outside in, through behavior, mood, and memory ...

Is complex social behavior genetically determined? Yes, as a team of biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf ...

Guilt and shame arise from different cognitive triggers and rely on distinct neural systems to guide compensatory behavior.

As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the ...

Living with a dog may shape teens’ behavior by changing the microbiome, with dog-associated bacteria linked to lower ...

There’s a lot to love about brains. They are arguably the most complex organ in the entire human body. 86 billion neurons send electrical and chemical signals back and forth within your brain to ...

How the brain gets wired up matters. Consider the neurons involved in the sense of smell. Hook them up wrong, and suddenly turpentine might smell like a lovely chianti. Yet how our developing brains ...

A generation growing up with algorithmic feeds is not suffering “brain damage,” but their attention, emotions and habits are being shaped in powerful ways. For many families, the first smartphone or ...