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Compulsive overeating and sugar addiction are major threats to human health, but potential treatments face the risk of impairing normal feeding behaviors that are crucial for survival. A study [...]

Kay Tye gave a talk at Harvard University: “Dissecting neural circuits underlying behaviors relevant to psychiatric disease in animal models”. The ability to differentiate between [...]

New findings may help neuroscientists pinpoint better targets for antianxiety treatments. Anxiety disorders, which include posttraumatic stress disorder, social phobias, and obsessive-compulsive [...]

Have you heard about optogenetics yet? If not, you soon will. Optogenetics techniques are sweeping neuroscience research. Named as the Method of the Year in 2010 by Nature Methods, optogenetics [...]

Neurostimulation as a tool for Basic Science and Medicine.  Anxiety disorders are the single most common class of psychiatric diseases, afflicting up to 28% of the adult population. Although [...]

Researchers discover a brain circuit that can instantly dampen—or exacerbate—anxiety in mice. With the flick of a precisely placed light switch, mice can be induced to cower in a corner in fear [...]