"Our study shows that mice with an autism-risk gene, eIF4E, have reduced release of dopamine, a chemical messenger (or neurotransmitter) that is important for motivation, learning and movement ...

New research reveals that dopamine plays a crucial role in teaching young male mice to fight, with the chemical’s influence ...

He and his team used RNA sequencing to analyze the mice’s striatal spiny neurons, which are involved in producing the behavior-reinforcing neurotransmitter dopamine both before and after exercise, and ...

Researchers from Xi'an Jiaotong University and collaborating institutions in China have identified sexually dimorphic dopamine (DA ... sociosexual preferences in mice. They found innate ...

Like humans, mice will compete over territory and mates, and show increased confidence in their fighting skills the more they win. At first, a brain chemical called dopamine is essential for young ...

This computation is presumably the result of synaptic inputs to dopamine neurons, possibly from the striatum 23. Experiments were performed on two monkeys (Macaca fascicularis), which were ...

Like humans, mice will compete over territory and mates, and show increased confidence in their fighting skills the more they win.