Mice are prey animals, and while they must be able to move around looking for food, it is just as important that they can get ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the ...

Rutgers scientists have uncovered a tug-of-war inside the brain between hunger and satiety, revealing two newly mapped neural ...

Research reveals how stress impacts sleep and memory. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania studied the brain's ...

A team of scientists has discovered a specific group of brain cells that could explain why people with memory problems often ...

Activating stress-linked brain neurons caused memory loss and reduced sleep * Inhibiting paraventricular nucleus neurons improved sleep and memory in stressed //mice * A brain pathway linking the ...

If you become distracted while you are eating, scientists say you're likely to have worse 'meal memories', which could lead ...

Research reveals how stress impacts sleep and memory. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania studied the brain's response to stress in mice. The hypothalamus' paraventricular nucleus (PVN ...

Scientists have discovered a specific group of brain cells that create memories of meals, encoding not just what food was ...

The results showed that consuming sucralose, compared to sucrose and water, increased blood flow in the lateral hypothalamus. This region is known to be involved in triggering hunger and ...