Mutated SETX, a human gene encoding for the protein Senataxin, has been identified among patients with two different neurodegenerative disorders--ataxia-ocular apraxia 2 (AOA2) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 4 (ALS4). ...

Anxiety is an incapacitating disorder affecting millions of people that emerges early in life. Past research has focused primarily on behavioral and neurophysiological differences in children and adults and has only recently ...

Objects with similar functions are judged to be similar "kinds of things," even when they have few directly-observable properties in common. How do people learn such "functional" similarity? One possibility is that objects ...

Scent marking has been shown to be an active form of communication for male mice in claiming territory, advertising for females, and mate guarding. Yet little is known about how females use scent marking behaviorally. ...