Now, using a novel system developed at Janelia, researchers led by the Dudman Lab found that a part of the basal ganglia called the striatum is not involved in action selection as previously thought.

When you are weighing two possible actions, your brain needs to decide what to do and how to do it. For example, if a book ...

The scientists uncovered two groups of brain cells in mice: one that helps mice learn about above-average outcomes and ...

Three developmental neuroscientists presented their research on adolescent brain development and the risk factors for ...

Reward is absolutely central to habit formation, as neuroscientist Dr Aleksandra Herman told IFLScience. Herman is an ...

The goal was to gain a better understanding of how the potential risks and rewards of a particular decision are weighed in ...

Researchers from Harvard’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology published a study on risk-reward assessment earlier ...

Nerve-cell ‘highways’ identified in mice suggest that stress pushes the brain towards rigid habit and away from thoughtful ...

The following is a summary of “Abnormal static and dynamic functional connectivity of striatal subregions in patients with ...

University of California, Los Angeles researchers have discovered that chronic stress flips brain activity between two ...