Animals have sophisticated mechanisms for coping with danger. Freezing is a unique state
that, upon threat detection, allows evidence to be gathered, response possibilities to be …

Neurotransmitters (NTs) are biologically active chemicals, which mediate the
electrochemical transmission between neurons. NTs control numerous organic functions …

The aim of this review is to explore how metabolic changes induced by diets high in
saturated fat (HFD) affect nucleus accumbens (NAc) dopamine neurotransmission and food …

Appropriate responding to threat and reward is essential to survival. The nucleus
accumbens core (NAcc) is known to support and organize reward behavior. The NAcc is …

While opioids are a powerful class of drugs that inhibit transmission of pain signals, their use
is tarnished by the current epidemic of opioid use disorder (OUD) and overdose deaths …

Prenatal opioid exposure has been linked to adverse effects spanning multiple
neurodevelopmental domains, including cognition, motor development, attention, and …

As treatments for diffuse gliomas have advanced, survival for patients with gliomas has also
increased. However, there remains limited knowledge on the relationships between brain …

Simple Summary Horse training exposes horses to many difficult learning challenges,
including tasks that run counter to their natural behaviour and research from neuroscience …

Background Although it has been traditionally assumed that dysregulation of psychological
processes in smokers results from activity within specific brain regions, an emerging view …

The purview of this paper is twofold: to set the theoretical framework to ground a fruitful
dialogue between oral theory and neuroscience and to apply neuroscientific findings to the …