Researchers stimulate areas vital to consciousness in monkeys’ brains—and it wakes them up
One of the central questions in neuroscience is clarifying where in the brain consciousness, which is the ability to experience
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Anxiety-associated brain regions regulate threat responses in monkeys: Study proposes critical role for orbitofrontal cortex in anxiety disorders
Damage to parts of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a region within the prefrontal cortex, heightens monkeys’ defensive responses to threat,
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Contact with monkeys and apes puts populations at risk
Animal diseases that infect humans are a major threat to human health, and diseases often spillover to humans from nonhuman
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Gambling monkeys help scientists find brain area linked to high-risk behavior
Monkeys who learned how to gamble have helped researchers pinpoint an area of the brain key to one’s willingness to
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The spotlight of attention is more like a strobe light
You don’t focus as well as you think you do. That’s the fundamental finding of a team of researchers from
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Gammaherpesviruses linked to tumors in macaques with simian immunodeficiency virus: Future macaque research could help clarify viruses’ roles in cancer development in people with HIV
Viruses known as gammaherpesviruses may raise the risk of cancer in macaques infected with Simian Immunodeficiency Virus or Simian Human
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