Brain area 46 is at the center of a network for emotion regulation in marmosets, a new Science study finds. The results relate directly to motivation and responsiveness to threat, which play important roles in depression and anxiety.

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Excited to share our new paper out @science.org! We studied how a region of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, Area 46, shapes motivation and anxiety-like responses. These data may give new insight into the circuits underlying depression treatment. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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#JNeurosci | Hwang, Murray, and colleagues discovered that the orbitofrontal cortex is pivotal to the arousal of the autonomic system in macaque monkeys when they view reward-predictive cues. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0619-25.2025

Neonatal gyrencephalic brains, including humans, harbor an elaborate subventricular zone (the Arc). It contains diverse interneurons from the medial and caudal ganglionic eminences that migrate into the cortex

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Synthetic Serum Markers Enable Noninvasive Monitoring of Gene Expression in Primate Brains https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.01.657212v1

"Academics tend to be averse to discussing mental health openly, and higher education’s mental health safety net is patchy—a forgotten footnote that all too often fails its students." #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth scim.ag/4m61iaU