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From gut motility to interoceptive behavior

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AI Meets Behavior: decoding the brain

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Sex differences in anxiety and depression

Drawing on adult rodent models of chronic stress, Drs. Bowman, Frankfurt, and Luine synthesize evidence on sex differences in anxiety- and depression-like behaviors and neural plasticity, with implications for mood disorder vulnerability — Read more.

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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

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Mediterranean Neuroscience Society partner journal

From gut motility to interoceptive behavior

AI Meets Behavior: decoding the brain

Sex differences in anxiety and depression

Community feedback

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nuno sousa

walter adriani

james cherry

liana fattore

Articles

Structural and molecular substrates underlying functional dysconnectivity and cognitive impairment in neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease

A mouse model of reward following oral self-administration of oxycodone in a sweetened solution

The relationship between cognitive and reading skills in typically developing pre-primary school children

The relevance of cannabinoid receptor 2 in the central nervous system: an update over the last 3 years

Behavioral Endocrinology

Structural and molecular substrates underlying functional dysconnectivity and cognitive impairment in neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease

A mouse model of reward following oral self-administration of oxycodone in a sweetened solution

The relationship between cognitive and reading skills in typically developing pre-primary school children

The relevance of cannabinoid receptor 2 in the central nervous system: an update over the last 3 years

Mapping memory at scale: systems-level insights with translational and transdiagnostic relevance to fear-related disorders

Recent advances in epigenetic therapeutics for Rett syndrome: from mechanisms to clinical trials

Romantic Love as Regulatory Co-option of Maternal-Bonding Circuitry: A Testable Genetic Account

Lévy statistics define anxiety and depression in mice subjected to chronic stress

Impairment of object recognition, object location and spatial working memory performance in inbred RHA vs. RLA rats

Psychological Distress, Digital Behavioral Risks, and Physical Activity as Predictors of Subjective Well-Being: A Machine Learning Study in a Large Sample of Community-Dwelling Adults

Strain- and age-dependent divergence in mouse appetitive spatial learning and decision strategies

The Thalamic Nucleus Reuniens Orchestrates Prefrontal-Hippocampal Synchrony in Memory, Emotion, and Disease

Biomarkers of post-stroke cognitive impairment—a systematic literature review

Behavioral phenotypes in aging: structured exploratory computational analysis of multi-assay behavioral data

Neural-behavioral dissociation under acute high-altitude stress: an exploratory ERP study of non-specific neural recruitment and rTMS effects

Sex-specific effects of prenatal methamphetamine exposure on activity and blood pressure in aged offspring

Emotion Regulation and Processing

Structural and molecular substrates underlying functional dysconnectivity and cognitive impairment in neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease

A mouse model of reward following oral self-administration of oxycodone in a sweetened solution

The relationship between cognitive and reading skills in typically developing pre-primary school children

The relevance of cannabinoid receptor 2 in the central nervous system: an update over the last 3 years

Mapping memory at scale: systems-level insights with translational and transdiagnostic relevance to fear-related disorders

Recent advances in epigenetic therapeutics for Rett syndrome: from mechanisms to clinical trials

Romantic Love as Regulatory Co-option of Maternal-Bonding Circuitry: A Testable Genetic Account

Lévy statistics define anxiety and depression in mice subjected to chronic stress

Impairment of object recognition, object location and spatial working memory performance in inbred RHA vs. RLA rats

Psychological Distress, Digital Behavioral Risks, and Physical Activity as Predictors of Subjective Well-Being: A Machine Learning Study in a Large Sample of Community-Dwelling Adults

Strain- and age-dependent divergence in mouse appetitive spatial learning and decision strategies

The Thalamic Nucleus Reuniens Orchestrates Prefrontal-Hippocampal Synchrony in Memory, Emotion, and Disease

Biomarkers of post-stroke cognitive impairment—a systematic literature review

Behavioral phenotypes in aging: structured exploratory computational analysis of multi-assay behavioral data

Neural-behavioral dissociation under acute high-altitude stress: an exploratory ERP study of non-specific neural recruitment and rTMS effects

Sex-specific effects of prenatal methamphetamine exposure on activity and blood pressure in aged offspring

Learning and Memory

Structural and molecular substrates underlying functional dysconnectivity and cognitive impairment in neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease

A mouse model of reward following oral self-administration of oxycodone in a sweetened solution

The relationship between cognitive and reading skills in typically developing pre-primary school children

The relevance of cannabinoid receptor 2 in the central nervous system: an update over the last 3 years

Mapping memory at scale: systems-level insights with translational and transdiagnostic relevance to fear-related disorders

Recent advances in epigenetic therapeutics for Rett syndrome: from mechanisms to clinical trials

Romantic Love as Regulatory Co-option of Maternal-Bonding Circuitry: A Testable Genetic Account

Lévy statistics define anxiety and depression in mice subjected to chronic stress

Impairment of object recognition, object location and spatial working memory performance in inbred RHA vs. RLA rats

Psychological Distress, Digital Behavioral Risks, and Physical Activity as Predictors of Subjective Well-Being: A Machine Learning Study in a Large Sample of Community-Dwelling Adults

Strain- and age-dependent divergence in mouse appetitive spatial learning and decision strategies

The Thalamic Nucleus Reuniens Orchestrates Prefrontal-Hippocampal Synchrony in Memory, Emotion, and Disease

Biomarkers of post-stroke cognitive impairment—a systematic literature review

Behavioral phenotypes in aging: structured exploratory computational analysis of multi-assay behavioral data

Neural-behavioral dissociation under acute high-altitude stress: an exploratory ERP study of non-specific neural recruitment and rTMS effects

Sex-specific effects of prenatal methamphetamine exposure on activity and blood pressure in aged offspring

Motivation and Reward

Structural and molecular substrates underlying functional dysconnectivity and cognitive impairment in neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease

A mouse model of reward following oral self-administration of oxycodone in a sweetened solution

The relationship between cognitive and reading skills in typically developing pre-primary school children

The relevance of cannabinoid receptor 2 in the central nervous system: an update over the last 3 years

Mapping memory at scale: systems-level insights with translational and transdiagnostic relevance to fear-related disorders

Recent advances in epigenetic therapeutics for Rett syndrome: from mechanisms to clinical trials