When defending their territory, male mice typically appear threatening before launching an attack, ensuring that aggression ...

What causes sudden aggression? A new study identifies the LH-DRN brain circuit that triggers physical attacks in mice.

A depiction of the paradigm used to assess whether witnessing familiar peers or unfamiliar strangers fight for 10 min leads to aggression 30 min later. Only after watching familiar peers attack do ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found that hunger can make virgin female mice aggressive towards pups, but only in certain hormonal states. These mice would usually ignore other ...

Scientists have discovered that a specific area within the brain, known as the cortical amygdala, plays a pivotal role in ...