Displaced aggression—redirecting frustration onto an uninvolved target—has now been studied in mice, revealing that identity ...

Displaced aggression, such as lashing out at an unrelated individual after a frustrating experience, is a well-documented phenomenon in ...

Psilocybin, a psychedelic compound contained in some varieties of mushrooms, has recently been found to be promising for the ...

UC San Diego scientists have created a gene therapy that goes beyond masking Alzheimer’s symptoms—it may actually restore ...

The effect of social instigation by familiar partner mice. Credit: Psychopharmacology (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s00213-025-06824-9 ...

The same brain system that rewards you for a delicious meal is hijacked by drugs like fentanyl. A behavioral neuroscientist ...

Oh no! You dropped your keys on the ground, and it is too dark to see them. You might have to feel the ground with your hands ...

Despite its reputation as a safer chemical, PFHxA—a short-chain PFAS—may cause long-term behavioral changes when exposure ...

In the darkness of old church attics, surprisingly romantic scenes take place as male greater mouse-eared bats (Myotis myotis ...

Researchers have introduced a mouse motion capture method that provides very high-resolution measurement of mouse movement.

In animal studies, brain tumors nearly disappeared when an experimental drug, MT-125, was given as a combo with an oncology drug that otherwise does not work on aggressive glioblastoma. The U.S. Food ...