A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

After a week of stress, mice show changes in how their brains process sound, reducing how well they perceive loud noises, ...

To trigger the same responses in stressed mice as in unstressed mice, sounds need to be louder. (Credit: Szasz-Fabian Jozsef/Shutterstock) We process our world differently when we’re stressed out, and ...

The team’s work investigated the effect of chronic stress on mice’s perception of sounds as being loud or quiet. The paper describes how two groups of mice were subjected to a number of noises ...