In a new study, Northwestern University neurobiologists discovered that gut bacteria and the nose work together to shape ...
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 ...
A meadow grasshopper (Pseudochorthippus parallelus). This species is widespread across most of Europe and is commonly used as a model organism in evolutionary biology. If an experiment is repeated ...
The beauty of behavioral experiments is that it makes it easier to try those behaviors again in the future, as the urge or need strikes you. For example, if you try making pizza dough for the first ...
The human mind has always fascinated scientists, but the quest to understand psychological behavior has led researchers down some disturbingly dark paths.