A new doctoral dissertation shows that gambling disorder is linked to brain networks involved in self-control and brain ...

Research shows that delaying important tasks is often driven by how the brain processes stress and threat—not by poor time ...

Imagine a seesaw in your brain. On one side is your desire system, the network of brain areas related to seeking pleasure and reward. On the other side is your self-control system, the network of ...

With the Obama administration planning a major initiative to map the brain, there’s more attention focused on what all of that new information will mean for how we see ourselves and how we take moral ...

Active play is an undeniably important part of a child's development. Traditional martial arts such as karate, taekwondo, and ...

Imagine that you can be two different people. That's not such an absurd idea. It's been around in psychoanalysis (starting with Freud) for over a century, and even contemporary cognitive science and ...

Your ‘annoying’ habits and personality quirks might be superpowers in disguise. Here’s how you can harness them.

A common belief is that compulsive behaviors trap people in a “habit loop” that takes over self-control. New research, however, suggests this explanation may be incomplete. For many years, compulsive ...

The thoughts we focus on create how we feel, which controls the actions we take. This is the backbone of the thought model: ...

Neuroscientists and philosophers have debated this thought experiment for decades as they have tried to understand how the ...