Summary: Scientists have identified how depression alters the brain’s response to positive and negative stimuli, particularly in the amygdala, a key emotional processing center. The study found that depression reduces…
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Individual Reward-Seeking Predicts Nicotine Response
Summary: A new study finds that individualistic reward-seeking behaviors in mice can predict their responses to nicotine. Conducted in a semi-natural environment called Souris-City, the research observed how male mice…
Study shows that LLMs could maliciously be used to poison biomedical knowledge graphs
Scorpius generates a malicious paper and mixes it with real papers. This poisoned knowledge graph will contain a malicious link. As a result, the relevance between a promoted drug and…
An ethical and legal matter that demands discussion
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The new European legal framework on artificial intelligence, the EU AI Act, came into force on August 1, aimed at preventing rights violations through the use…
Chick Calls Reveal Emotional States
Summary: Researchers have developed a way to measure stress in baby chicks using vocalizations, offering new insights into animal emotions. The study found that chicks alone produced higher-pitched, louder calls,…
Brain Signals Reveal How Aggression and Arousal Are Encoded
Summary: New research has uncovered that brain signals for aggression in male mice and sexual arousal in female mice are encoded by similar neural mechanisms. The studies found that a…
Solving computationally hard problems with 3D integrated photonics
Computing results of the SSP instances where the set is {2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17} and {2, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17}, respectively. (a) and (c) The experimental…