Salivary glands produce and secrete saliva, which is essential for maintaining oral health
and overall health. Understanding both the unique structure and physiological function of …

The medial amygdala (MeA) is critical for the expression of a broad range of social
behaviors, and is also connected to many other brain regions that mediate those same …

Social behaviors, such as mating, fighting, and parenting, are fundamental for survival of any
vertebrate species. All members of a species express social behaviors in a stereotypical and …

Principles of Neurobiology, Second Edition presents the major concepts of neuroscience
with an emphasis on how we know what we know. The text is organized around a series of …

Male animals often display higher levels of aggression than females. However, the neural
circuitry mechanisms underlying this sexually dimorphic aggression remain elusive. Here …

Understanding the dynamic transcriptional landscape throughout organ development will
provide a template for regenerative therapies. Here, we generated a single-cell RNA …

The Parental Brain: Mechanisms, Development, and Evolution presents a comprehensive
analysis of how the brain regulates parental behavior in nonhuman animals and in humans …

Maternal mammals exhibit heightened motivation to care for offspring, but the underlying
neuromolecular mechanisms have yet to be clarified. Here, we report that the calcitonin …

The preoptic area (POA) has long been recognized as a sleep center, first proposed by von
Economo. The POA, especially the medial POA (MPOA), is also involved in the regulation of …

Communication between individuals is critical for species survival, reproduction, and
expansion. Most terrestrial species, with the exception of humans who predominantly use …