Your Food Preferences Sabotage How You Learn New Food Values
A Yale study of 279 participants shows that existing food preferences distort associative learning, with initial reinforcement of priors making ...
Tag: behavioral neuroscience
How Threat Rewires the Brain’s Decision Math in Approach-Avoidance Choices
A new computational study shows that humans adapt to threatening decision environments by reweighting reward and threat information and aligning ...
Mice Move Closer to Familiar Companions When a Learned Danger Signal Sounds
Virginia Tech researchers found that mice hearing a learned danger cue moved closer to familiar companions but not strangers, implicating ...
Brain Stimulation Technique Shifts the Willingness to Think Hard
Researchers report that temporal interference stimulation, a non-invasive technique capable of reaching deep brain circuits, can change how willing people ...
Head-Fixed Mice Learn to Self-Administer Drugs, Opening a New Window on Addiction
A new Nature Protocols article details how to combine head fixation with intravenous drug self-administration in mice, uniting voluntary drug-taking ...
Excessive Screen-Like Stimulation in Childhood Reshapes the Rat Amygdala and Drives Autism-Like Behaviors
Rats exposed to six hours of daily audiovisual overstimulation after weaning developed autism-like behaviors and enlarged amygdala subregions, a new ...
Brain’s CGRP Switch Flips Fear Response from Freezing to Active Escape
New research shows that inhibiting CGRP signaling in the brain's parabrachial nucleus redirects defensive behavior from passive freezing to active ...
Metabolism May Predict Stress Responses Differently in Male and Female Mice
A study in adult C57Bl/6 mice finds that the metabolic profiles predicting stress responses differ between males and females, highlighting ...
Brain Effects of Infection-Fighting Molecules: How They Influence Anxiety and Sociability
Recent studies from researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Medical School illustrate the intricate relationship between ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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