Medications including clomipramine and a veterinary version of Prozac known as fluoxetine have since been successfully prescribed to manage symptoms of PTSD and anxiety in canines (Chutter et al., ...

Far from being lofty abstract ideals, our sense of right and wrong is woven into our biology. Modern neuroscience reveals that our brains literally reward us for treating others fairly and for placing ...

This study overall shows there is an interplay between the BBB and CB1 receptors on perivascular astrocytes that influences chronic stress resilience.

For years, BAMs were hidden in plain sight, often mistaken for other immune cells. That changed with new tools like fate mapping (tracks a cell’s developmental origin) and single-cell RNA sequencing, ...

Imagine if scientists could control specific brain functions with the ease of flipping a switch. This vision is closer than ever, thanks to chemogenetics—a tool that allows scientists to precisely ...

The world around us is beyond complicated. One theory of how the brain deals with this complexity is by creating cognitive maps. In part one, we discussed the underlying ideas behind cognitive maps ...

Keionna is currently pursuing her PhD in Neuroscience in the lab of Dr. Lindsay De Biase at UCLA. She graduated from the University of Washington in 2021 where she used mouse models to investigate the ...

Johanna Mayer is a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden working on autophagy-mediated secretory mechanisms in Alzheimer’s disease. Her PhD project is part of the EU-funded Marie ...