Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds, behavior and internal states shape vision. The new ...

MIT researchers tested the “Spatial Computing” theory and found that brain waves organize neurons into flexible, ...

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Drinking alcohol results in an alcohol use disorder (AUD) when consumption becomes excessive and dependence develops. Both stress and anxiety can contribute to the development of an AUD. Chronic ...

When Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey opens, the hero Odysseus is sitting on the shore of the island Ogygia weeping. After spending ten years fighting the Trojan War, and several more years trying to ...

A new study published in Neuropsychopharmacology sheds light on how heroin exposure alters brain function related to social interaction and drug craving. Researchers found that a specific group of ...

Much criminal behavior derives from logical, if not laudable, sources. A wonderful example of this was seen in the old Bob Newhart television show. Newhart, playing a clinical psychologist, leans ...

Vision shapes behavior, and a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds behavior and internal states shape vision. The research, published in Neuron, finds in mice that, via specific circuits, the ...