What causes sudden aggression? A new study identifies the LH-DRN brain circuit that triggers physical attacks in mice.

When defending their territory, male mice typically appear threatening before launching an attack, ensuring that aggression ...

These insights could inform research into animal behaviour and, potentially, how microbe-produced odours might change ...

A depiction of the paradigm used to assess whether witnessing familiar peers or unfamiliar strangers fight for 10 min leads to aggression 30 min later. Only after watching familiar peers attack do ...

Is aggression part of our primate nature, wired into our systems because it helps us survive, or do we learn it from such seemingly innocent occupations as watching cartoons and wrestling matches on ...

Like humans, mice will compete over territory and mates, and show increased confidence in their fighting skills the more they win. At first, a brain chemical called dopamine is essential for young ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found that hunger can make virgin female mice aggressive towards pups, but only in certain hormonal states. These mice would usually ignore other ...

In a new study, Northwestern University neurobiologists discovered that gut bacteria and the nose work together to shape ...