When facing danger, mice turn to their friends

When mice heard a sound they thought signaled danger, they moved closer to a familiar companion, according to researchers.

They did not do the same when paired with a mouse they didn’t know.

The study, led by Alexei Morozov of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech and published in Neuropsychopharmacology, begins to reveal how the brain turns a warning signal into a driv...