There has been remarkable progress in the last twenty years regarding tools that monitor activity in specific neuronal populations using fluorescent indicators, especially applied to rodent models.

People with health anxiety tend to get tangled up in problematic behaviors, such as reassurance-seeking, excessive body checking and avoidance. These behaviors act like a vortex, sucking you into that ...

Cognitive neuroscience seeks to understand physiological, mental and behavioral phenomena, articulating theories that jointly explain these domains. Central to this understanding is a foundational ...

This bold social experiment forces people to confront a question they’re never prepared for: would they let a stranger live with them? The reactions reflect micro-expressions, trust cues, and ...

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...