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A new study characterizes a neuromodulatory circuit in worms that regulates opposing foraging behavioural states.

A new study shows that increased β-calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase type II expression in the lateral habenula is both sufficient and necessary for the expression of depression-like behaviour in rodents.

Neuroectoderm derived from human pluripotent stem cells can self-organizein vitrointo a three-dimensional brain-like structure.

Neuroscientific evidence is increasingly offered in court cases, with neuroscientists often acting as expert witnesses. Jones and colleagues discuss the important roles that neuroscientists serve, as well as the potential problems they, as well as judges and jurors, may encounter.

Different sets of proteins regulate the fast and slow components of neurotransmitter release at the neuromuscular junction of worms.

Two new studies reveal a wiring plan that enables motion discrimination in the fly's visual system.

Two new studies in mice show that fibroblast growth factor 21 acts at the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus and the dorsal vagal complex of the hindbrain to regulate various adaptive responses to nutritional deprivation.

A new study shows that the switch of sonic hedgehog from an attractive to a repulsive signal for commissural axon navigation involves the heparan sulphate proteoglycan glypican 1 and induction of Hedgehog-interacting protein expression.

Direct electrophysical recordings reveal the presence of grid cells in the human brain.

The combined action of three transcription factors regulates mechanosensory neuron fate and branching in nematodes.