Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, ...

By studying how activating the brain's 'serotonin center' affects awake animals for the first time, they found that serotonin from the DRN activates brain areas that affect behavior and motivation.

The findings were powered by a new imaging tool, which allowed scientists to collect images of the cochlea in awake animals for the first time. The cochlea uses sensory hair cells to detect sound ...

indicating that the same network is active in awake animals performing a task and in animals under anaesthesia. The authors measured similar spontaneous BOLD signal fluctuations in regions of the ...