Sensory hypersensitivity in mice with the Grin2b gene mutation found in patients is related to hyperactivity of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and hyperconnectivity between the ACC and other ...

In recent times, more effort has been devoted to ascertaining effective screening methods for the early detection of, and subsequent intervention for, psychiatric conditions in children. Recent ...

Facial expression control starts in a very old part of the nervous system. In the brain stem sits the facial nucleus, which contains the motoneurons that directly control facial muscles.

Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...