Making effective decisions under pressure isn't about listing the pros and cons, but about working with how the brain works ...

Mice moving tiny steering wheels to control shapes on a screen have given scientists an unprecedented view of how decisions unfold across the brain. For the first time, researchers have mapped ...

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Learn more about how researchers were able to fully map a mouse brain and give us a better understanding of how or why we ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped how nearly an entire mammalian brain lights up as decisions are made. The massive effort, which tracked single neurons across almost the whole mouse brain, ...

The average adult makes approximately 35,000 decisions daily, from the mundane selection of breakfast cereals to consequential professional judgments. Yet this constant choosing exacts a toll that ...

Every decision begins invisibly. Long before someone acts, the brain is already hard at work gathering evidence, weighing options, and gradually committing to a choice. But even when faced with the ...

New research finds that a certain workout plan may make you less impulsive. Experts explain how it works and what the ...

Some people with psychiatric conditions, including addiction and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, struggle to ...

A key to understanding the brain lies in unpacking how hundreds of interconnected brain areas process information that leads to various outputs. In order to try to understand this, researchers ...

Researchers exploring risky decision-making in rats found that a specific reward-related neural circuit influences impulsivity and risk-taking in complex ways that depend on timing and biological sex.