Monthly Archives: July 2021

Rats prefer to help their own kind. Humans may be similarly wired.

Rats prefer to help their own kind. Humans may be similarly wired. “Using fiber photometry, immunohistochemistry, calcium imaging and other diagnostic tools, researchers found that all the rats they studied experienced empathy in response to another rat’s signs of distress. However, to act on that empathy, the helper rat’s neural reward circuitry had to be […]