Life can be tricky. We have so many decisions to make. It’s a good thing we have an orbitofrontal cortex and hippocampus to help us. These areas of the brain, according to researchers at UC Santa ...

As humans and other animals navigate their surroundings and experience different things, their brain creates so-called cognitive maps, which are internal representations of environments or tasks.

A new study in Neuron reveals that the brain’s executive center sends highly specialized, context-dependent instructions to the visual system rather than a generic broadcast signal. The findings ...

Depression imposes a major global socioeconomic burden, and current pharmacotherapies face several limitations, including slow efficacy, adverse effects, and non-response rates of up to 55%, ...