Sex, aggression controlled separately in female animal brains, but overlap in male brains
Diagram of mouse mind (far left) and the ventrolateral a part of the ventromedial hypothalamus, or VMHvl, which controls for aggression in each male -- and feminine -- mice. Center picture reveals VMHvl cells in feminine mind, with cells lively in mating (in blue) situated round border, whereas these within the male mind (far proper) are dispersed. Cells lively in combating (in crimson) are situated extra within the middle of the feminine VMHvl , however not so in male mice. Credit score: Courtesy of Nature Neuroscience Mind constructions that management sexual and aggressive habits in mice are wired in a different way in females than in males. This the discovering of a research led by scientists at NYU Faculty of Drugs and printed on-line Sept. 18 in Nature Neuroscience . Particularly, researchers discovered that, whereas management of aggressive habits resides in similar mind area in feminine and male mice, sure teams of ...