Gene therapy shows promise for future treatment of addiction in humans, a new study reports.
The brain automatically places more value on the opinions of people who appear to be confident, a new study reports.
While many of us find the sound of a person chewing or breathing heavily annoying, for those with misophonia, such noises are unbearable. Researchers have identified the neural networks and brain changes associated with the disorder.
Greater variability in reaction time is associated with reduced gray matter volume in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, a new study reports.
According to researchers, the ability to assess memory quality appears in children, and metamemory continues to improve beyond childhood into adolescence. The findings could provide new insights into effective learning methods and assist teachers to devise new educational strategies.
Taking a mobile neuroimaging system on the road to prisons, researchers look at the brain activity of those considered to be psychopaths and discover their brains are wired in a way that leads them to over-value immediate rewards while neglecting future consequences.
Substance addiction modifies they way a mother's brain responds to her own child, a new study reports. Researchers found key reward regions of the brain appear to shut down in response to their own infant's smiles in mothers with addictions.
A new study reveals chronic cocaine users have a global impairment of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.