Evaluating the innate value of objects is critical for expressing adaptive behaviors. However, where and how this computation takes place in the brain…

Specialized cell types and links to psychiatric disorders are revealed by genetic mapping of primate amygdala neurons.

In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…

Visual threat triggers contrasting freeze and escape defensive responses in two species of deer mice as a result of different activation thresholds downstream of the superior colliculus in the do...

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How the ensemble encoding of social and anxiety-related behaviors interacts with encoding of context in the prefrontal cortex of mice is not fully understood. Here authors examine how prefrontal neurons encode socioemotional behaviors in different contexts and reveal that the prefrontal cortex encodes context-invariant representations of these behaviors in parallel with representations of context.

Individual dopaminergic neurons encode future rewards over distinct temporal horizons.