A new study published in Nature Neuroscience has identified a brain circuit in mice that overrides basic needs like hunger or ...

Maintaining a stable body temperature is essential for survival. Animals, including humans, use both autonomic processes -- such as shivering or activating brown fat -- and behaviors -- such as ...

Starting with the question "How does our brain distinguish glucose from the many nutrients absorbed in the gut?" a KAIST ...

To test this hypothesis, Dr. Jineun Kim (KAIST Ph.D. graduate, now at Caltech) demonstrated during her doctoral research that ...