Dopamine doesn’t flood the brain as once believed – it fires in exact, ultra-fast bursts that target specific neurons. The ...

Fish hunt in surprisingly diverse ways! A study found young cichlids and zebrafish share a two-eyed, direct strike method.

BabyBot: Robotic infant replicates feeding behaviors, can lead to medical breakthroughs BabyBot has a sensorized mouth, soft tongue, and neural circuits to mimic reflexive and adaptive infant ...

By studying the roundworm C. elegans, neuroscientist Steven Flavell explores how neural circuits give rise to behavior.

Researchers from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences have uncovered the first example of activity-dependent development of hypothalamic neural circuitry.

Researchers identified a neural circuit connecting hunger signals to jaw movements, showing that BDNF neurons in the hypothalamus regulate eating behavior and suppress compulsive chewing, acting much ...

Feeding behavior may operate like a reflex, driven by this simple neural circuit. Source: Rockefeller University Speaking, singing, coughing, laughing, yelling, yawning, chewing—we use our jaws for ...

A species of tropical butterfly with unusually expanded brain structures displays a fascinating mosaic pattern of neural ...

People eat either because they are hungry or for pleasure, even in the absence of hunger. While hunger-driven eating is fundamental for survival, pleasure-driven feeding may accelerate the onset of ...

While hunger-driven eating is fundamental for survival, pleasure-driven feeding may accelerate the onset of obesity and associated metabolic disorders. A study published in Nature Metabolism reveals ...