For people with an addiction, craving—the strong desire for a substance—can affect their decision-making, new research shows.

A key to understanding the brain lies in unpacking how hundreds of interconnected brain areas process information that leads to various outputs. In order to try to understand this, researchers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mice moving tiny steering wheels to control shapes on a screen have given scientists an unprecedented view of how decisions unfold ...

Smoking tobacco and cannabis may accelerate brain shrinkage, affecting memory, emotions and decision-making. A new study explains how usage impacts long-term brain health.

Your brain runs on a daily decision tank, and it empties faster than you think.

A new decision-making aid may help people seeking treatment for Parkinson disease weigh the risks and benefits of deep brain stimulation.

For the first time, scientists have mapped how nearly an entire mammalian brain lights up as decisions are made. The massive effort, which tracked single neurons across almost the whole mouse brain, ...

Mice turning tiny steering wheels to move shapes on a screen have helped scientists produce the first brain-wide map of decision-making at single-cell resolution in a mammal. For decades, most ...

The walk sign lights up, and you’re ready to step off the curb when you hear the blare of an ambulance siren—or the sound of kids screaming, or even some leaves rustling in the wind. How do you make a ...

Decisions run our lives. From the moment we wake up and decide to get out of bed to the moment we turn off the light and decide to sleep, we make decisions. Those who can make hard decisions are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visualization of 75,000 neurons (colored dots) active across the brain of an adult mouse across different stages of a ...