Study in mice offers insights into the brain circuitry underlying certain types of reward-based choices. Researchers identified distinct groups of brain cells activated when animals anticipate a ...

How we learn to predict an outcome isn’t determined by how many times a cue and reward happen together. Instead, how much ...

As young people reach adulthood, their preferences for sweet foods typically decline. But for people with obesity, new research suggests that the drop-off may not be as steep and that the brain's ...

Appetite doesn't begin in the stomach. It begins in the brain. When you start a GLP-1 medication, the first shifts happe ...

New research on the "Reward Positivity" brain signal distinguishes between rewards and goals, offering a new way to measure ...

James Cavanagh has been at the University of New Mexico for 13 years studying cognitive neuroscience and using imaging tools ...

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A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala—the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making—is simply the brain's primitive "fear ...

Research in mice identifies brain circuitry that supports certain reward-based decisions. Every day, our brain makes thousands of decisions, big and small. Any of these decisions -- from the least ...