Researchers have revealed neural circuits in the brainstem that are crucially involved in implementing decisions by controlling three fundamental behavioral states or strategies: perseverance, ...

Whether mice persist with a task, explore new options or give up comes down to the activity of three types of neuron in the brain ... imbalances in the three behavioural strategies, says Sonja ...

Early-life adversity affects more than half of the world's children and is a significant risk factor for cognitive and mental health problems later in life. In an extensive and up-to-the-minute review ...

The findings, published in Nature Human Behaviour, reveal that while key aspects ... MRI to gain a more comprehensive ...

Since it is so common, and mostly harmless, scientists say HSV-1 has gone “underdiagnosed and understudied,” but the consequences could be much more severe than once thought ...