By recording neuronal activity while the animals carried out this task, the team found that neurons within the cerebellum were active between the start of the task and the licking action—the period ...

Understanding the neural circuits that drive anxiety may help researchers discover circuit-specific targets and therefore ...

New research provides the first direct evidence that brain lesions causing secondary psychosis map to a common brain circuit ...

The cerebellum is a fist-size structure tucked below the cerebral cortex—the part of the brain that we typically attribute to higher-order cognitive processes, including consciousness, language, and ...

implicating an intricate circuit of cues in the process. The findings, which shed light on the processes that ensure proper cerebellum development, were published Jan. 7 in Nature Communications.

As a model, the cerebellum is experimentally tractable because it has an exquisitely organized architecture and well-understood circuit connections. The Sillitoe research team exploits these ...

Understanding the neural circuits that drive anxiety may help researchers discover circuit-specific targets and therefore increase the precision of treatment strategies.

Serotonin in the cerebellum alleviates anxiety-like behavior in mice, which counters the previously accepted role of serotonin in anxiety and may point to new treatment strategies.

The word "cerebellum" means "little brain", despite ... neurons": functionally alive but not interacting with the brain circuit as usual. Due to the subtlety of the unexpected effects of ChR2 ...

Summary: New research reveals that serotonin in the cerebellum plays a crucial role in anxiety regulation. Scientists found that mice with lower cerebellar serotonin levels displayed increased anxiety ...

Efficient learning decision-making implemented in a global brain circuit was considered by combining the internal models in the cerebellum and the evaluation functions in the basal ganglia via state ...

Understanding the neural circuits that drive anxiety may help researchers discover circuit-specific targets and therefore increase the precision of ...