Severe self-injurious behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) poses a significant risk of permanent physical ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a 3D imaging method to precisely map and categorize the social ...

Strong social connections protect brain health by reducing stress, enhancing cognitive function, and lowering the risk of ...

Researchers have mapped the long-range synaptic connections involved in vocal learning in zebra finches, uncovering new details about how the brain organises learned vocalisations such as birdsong.

Early-life adversity affects over half of children worldwide, increasing the risk of cognitive and mental health issues later ...

Early-life adversity affects more than half of the world's children and is a significant risk factor for cognitive and mental health problems later in life. In an extensive and up-to-the-minute review ...

Social support is thought to be an adaptive response to extreme stressors, Platt said. This means that having strong social ...

A Harvard team studying mice found that the brain processes isolation and loneliness like hunger and thirst, highlighting the ...

Researchers have discovered how specific brain circuits process empathy, showing that witnessing others in pain activates the ...

Lastly, examples of GCamp6f signals from neurons associated with each behavior are presented ... often involve difficulties ...

Multi-dimensional social relationships dynamically shape attentional biases toward in-group and out-group conspecifics in monkeys, with oxytocin modulating these interactions to reveal neurobiological ...

The work will be of broad interest to neuroscientists studying social behavior, neural circuit function ... (E) Left-most image shows the location of the POA in a coronal brain section. Representative ...