Emotion plays a crucial role, both in general human experience and in psychiatric illnesses.
Despite the importance of emotion, the relative lack of objective methodologies to …

Goal-directed social behaviours such as mating and fighting are associated with scalable
and persistent internal states of emotion, motivation, arousal or drive. How those internal …

Males of most species are more aggressive than females, but the neural mechanisms
underlying this dimorphism are not clear. Here, we identify a neuron and a gene that control …

How brains are hardwired to produce aggressive behavior, and how aggression circuits are
related to those that mediate courtship, is not well understood. A large-scale screen for …

High-resolution electron microscopy of nervous systems has enabled the reconstruction of
synaptic connectomes. However, we do not know the synaptic sign for each connection (ie …

Monoamines, including dopamine (DA), have been linked to aggression in various species.
However, the precise role or roles served by the amine in aggression have been difficult to …

How emotions are represented in the nervous system is a crucial unsolved problem in the
affective neuroscience. Many studies are striving to find the localization of basic emotions in …

Monoamine serotonin (5HT) has been linked to aggression for many years across species [1–
3]. However, elaboration of the neurochemical pathways that govern aggression has proven …

Despite ongoing high energetic demands, brains do not always use glucose and oxygen in
a ratio that produces maximal ATP through oxidative phosphorylation. In some cases …

Aggression mediates competition for food, mating partners, and habitats and, among social
animals, establishes stable dominance hierarchies. In humans, abnormal aggression is a …