Reading the brain's internal compass To understand how visual information impacts the brain's internal compass, the researchers exposed mice to a disorienting virtual world while recording the ...

Known as the "motion-source separation problem," researchers have long wondered how the brain achieves this critical sensory distinction. This is the first time scientists have pinpointed the ...

Researchers from Marquette University in Wisconsin determined that mice without a functional molecular clock do not have a daily variation in respiratory chemoreflex.

Disruptions between the brain’s master circadian clock and the liver’s internal clock, communicated via the hepatic afferent vagal nerve (HVAN), can lead to unhealthy eating patterns ...

A specialized group of brain cells called head direction (HD) cells, serve as the brain’s internal compass, giving us a sense of orientation. In a new study published in the journal Nature , for the ...

So, her team designed a study to see how the brain-clearing mechanism works in mice that could move freely in their cages and sleep naturally whenever they felt like it.