For decades, dopamine has been celebrated in neuroscience as the quintessential "reward molecule"—a chemical herald of ...

New research has discovered that a neural circuit may explain procrastination. Scientists were able to disrupt this connection using a drug.

Scientists have uncovered a way to manipulate the pathway in monkey brains that puts the brakes on motivation.

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...

Fixing the balance of a single brain circuit erased anxiety and social deficits in mice, revealing a powerful new target for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. William A. Haseltine, Ph.D., covers genomics and regenerative medicine A recent study from Cell inches us closer to understanding ...

A research team led by Hiroshima University and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have proposed a neuroendocrine ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.