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

Optogenetics has long been a powerful experimental tool, but a growing body of research suggests it may now be approaching a ...

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 ...

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

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

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