The researchers injected the human tissue into the rats’ somatosensory cortexes — regions that receive and process sensory information like touch or pain. After about two weeks of training, the rats ...

Blue light, often blamed for sleep problems, is now at the center of new animal research from the journal Physiology & Behavior suggesting it can ease anxiety caused by constant vibration and noise.

If you think laughter and comedy are reserved strictly for humans, you’d be wrong. A study in the late 1990s showed that creatures like rats emit ultrasonic vocalizations while playing with or ...

Harvard researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence-driven framework to track and analyze how rats interact in social environments, offering a new tool for studying autism and other ...

STANFORD, Calif. -- For decades researchers have been peering into the human brain, trying to unlock the secrets of conditions ranging from autism to epilepsy to mental illness. But now, instead of ...

Rats' Behavior Changed After Human Tissue Was Inserted Into Their Brains, Research Finds Studying human neurons inside rat brains could help researchers learn more about psychiatric disorders and how ...