A new study has identified a key brain hub in the medial prefrontal cortex that regulates stress responses and social ...

When I taught “Introduction to Psychology,” we covered four main goals of psychology: to describe, explain, predict, and control behavior (Coon, Mitterer, 2013). The idea of control is ...

To understand the full relationship between brain activity and behavior, scientists have needed a way to map this relationship for all of the neurons across a whole brain - a so far insurmountable ...

A UCLA study has mapped a critical brain hub in mice that regulates stress responses and social behavior, shedding new light ...

To control that latter phase of the behavior, HSN transfers the neurotransmitter serotonin to a fellow neuron, which re-releases it to influence behavior minutes later.

A group of scientists from South Korea discovered that the use of nanoparticles can control the emotions and appetite of mice without doing any surgery.

Researchers describe a new platform for controlling the chaotic behavior of light by tailoring its scattering patterns using light itself.