Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The team’s work investigated the effect of chronic stress on mice’s perception of sounds as being loud or quiet. The paper ...

After a week of stress, mice show changes in how their brains process sound, reducing how well they perceive loud noises, according to a study published February 11 in the open-access journal PLOS ...

Being exposed to loud noises for just an hour a day could worsen signs of Parkinson's disease, a study suggests. Researchers in China looked at mice that were modified to be in the early stages of ...

Pain is an important physiological response in living organisms. While physical pain is an outcome of tissue damage, pain can manifest as diverse unpleasant sensory and emotional experiences. Many ...

Nestled in dark burrows, with a limited sense of vision, mice brush their whiskers against their environment to navigate and to detect objects around them. This behavior, termed whisking, has been ...

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A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reveals that male and female mice develop distinct sound preferences depending on their early auditory environment. When exposed as pups to ...