Top neuroscience labs are adapting new and unexpected tools to gain a deeper understanding of how mice, and ultimately humans, react to different drug treatments. By Peter Hess Published Jan 10, 2024 ...

Studying social behavior is crucial for understanding how certain neuromodulatory pathways—like the serotonin pathway, which influences mood and social interactions—are regulated. Kavita Babu, ...

Youth with related behavior challenges may have trouble moving between different brain states, according to a new study from ...

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Health Behavior Science and Promotion provides the training and experience necessary for graduates to become independent researchers and practitioners in health ...

Because same-sex sexual behavior does not result in offspring, evolutionary biologists have long wondered how the genes associated with this behavior have persisted in the human genome, and whether ...

If you’ve ever wondered about what goes into understanding and shaping behavior, St. Cloud State University’s Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) master’s program is where students with that curiosity ...

For years, compulsive behaviors have been viewed as bad habits stuck on autopilot. But new research in rats found the opposite: inflammation in a key decision-making brain region actually made ...

When Wellow compression socks discovered that NBA legend Bill Walton was an avid fan of its socks, the brand’s behavioral science instincts led them to believe that he would be the perfect influencer ...

Humans have climbed to the top of the food chain by skillfully hunting, trapping, and fishing for other animals at scales that far exceed other predators, altering how the animals behave and earning ...

In this series called Member Showcase, we publish interviews with members of The Oracles. This interview is with Chase Hughes, founder and president of Applied Behavior Research, which develops ...

Dr. Weatherby is the director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. It’s hard to walk a block or finish a morning coffee without encountering some system that attempts to tell you what to ...

Parents of teens know this familiar sight: Waking in the middle of the night, maybe to go to the bathroom, and looking down the hall and seeing a line of light under their teenager’s door. But ...