The past two decades have seen an explosion in our understanding of the origin and development of the midbrain dopamine system. Much of this work has been focused on the aspects of dopamine neuron ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an impairing psychiatric condition, which often onsets in childhood. Growing research highlights dopaminergic alterations in adult OCD, yet pediatric studies are ...

Brain aging is a complex biological process that is affected by both genetic background and environment. The transcriptomic analysis of aged human and rodent brains has been applied to identify ...

The central nervous system’s rostral sector consists of forebrain and midbrain, and this sector is responsible for coordinating voluntary behavior, cognition, and affect with instinctive survival ...

Midbrain dopaminergic (mDA) neurons are essential for motor function control as well as for the regulation of reward and emotions (van Heesbeen et al., 2013). Development of mDA neurons can be divided ...

This study demonstrates that neurons receiving inputs from auditory cortex in the inferior colliculus widely encode the outcome of a sound detection task independent of the presence of auditory cortex ...

The midbrain, a crucial part of our brain, is responsible for processing auditory and visual information and regulating motor functions. By improving its activity, we can significantly enhance our ...

For talkative midshipman fish -- sometimes called the 'California singing fish' -- the midbrain plays a robust role in initiating and patterning of sounds used in vocal communication. For talkative ...