Habit formation brain circuits work independently, Kyoto University researchers report: one determines whether a behavior ...

Researchers at Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins Medicine have discovered that memory consolidation during sleep ...

Summary: A new study reveals that habit formation is managed by two distinct neural circuits, one governing the initiation of ...

Habit formation describes the repeated performance of a behavior until it becomes routine: in other words, the shift from ...

From brain fog to anxiety, the cognitive impacts of menopause are familiar to many. But now it seems the brain changes are much more profound than previously imagined, with potentially long-term ...

This episode is part of “The Young American Scientists,” an editorially independent project that was produced with financial support from Regeneron. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science ...

Gordon Burghardt kept a lion cub named Meg in his home at the behest of the Knoxville Zoo. To help Meg get out some energy, Burghardt and his wife would often play with Meg in their wooded, unfenced ...

Summary: New research shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t simply broadcast generic commands to sensory regions—it sends finely tailored signals that shape how the brain processes vision depending ...

Adam Nelson, a principal investigator in the UW Department of Zoology and Physiology, led a study that used mice to show that social hierarchy involves status-dependent behavioral interactions that ...

I like to think I’m fairly disciplined. I can sit and write all day. I can do mundane physical tasks for even longer. (My superpower, if I have one, is the ability to perform mindless manual labor for ...