Neuroscience
New insight into impulse control
How the brain controls impulsive behavior may be significantly different than psychologists have thought for the last 40 years.
Aug 30, 2011
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News tagged with behavioral responses
Immunology
Feed a virus but starve bacteria? When you're sick, it may really matter
Think back to the last time you came down with a cold and what it felt like to be sick. For most people, the feeling of sickness is a set of psychological and behavioral changes including fatigue, lethargy, changes in appetite, ...
Sep 28, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
'Caution fatigue' could dent efforts to stay safe
As people enter what feels like the umpteenth week of social distancing and isolation with no end in sight, they may find it more difficult to stay on high-risk alert as "caution fatigue" sets in, says a psychologist from ...
Apr 29, 2020
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Neuroscience
Babies show visual consciousness at five months
(Medical Xpress)—A new study by scientists in France and Denmark has identified a neurological marker in the brain of babies as young as five months that is associated with visual consciousness, or the ability to process ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
'Switching off' specific brain cells protects against stress
It is well known that long-term exposure to stress can lead to serious psychiatric problems. However, the precise mechanisms underpinning the stress response have remained elusive. Recent advances in microscopic imaging by ...
Mar 18, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Sensitive babies become altruistic toddlers
Our responsiveness to seeing others in distress accounts for variability in helping behavior from early in development, according to a study published September 25 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Tobias Grossmann ...
Sep 25, 2018
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Neuroscience
New evidence for a human magnetic sense that lets your brain detect the Earth's magnetic field
Do human beings have a magnetic sense? Biologists know other animals do. They think it helps creatures including bees, turtles and birds navigate through the world.
Mar 19, 2019
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Neuroscience
Study shines light on brain mechanism that controls reward enjoyment
What characterizes many people with depression, schizophrenia and some other mental illnesses is anhedonia: an inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable experiences.
Mar 21, 2012
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Medical research
Study examines nicotine as a gateway drug
A landmark study in mice identifies a biological mechanism that could help explain how tobacco products could act as gateway drugs, increasing a person's future likelihood of abusing cocaine and perhaps other drugs as well, ...
Nov 2, 2011
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Neuroscience
Study finds chronic alcohol use shifts brain's control of behavior
(Medical Xpress)—Chronic alcohol exposure leads to brain adaptations that shift behavior control away from an area of the brain involved in complex decision-making and toward a region associated with habit formation, according ...
Aug 23, 2013
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