Interacting with others can be challenging—just ask anyone who has ever tried to figure out group dynamics at a family gathering or navigate office politics. Recently, researchers studying the social ...
Pediatricians and parents — and, really, anyone who works with children — have long known that a child’s social needs evolve with age. Yale researchers have now discovered the neurological signaling ...
For the first time, researchers have mapped decision-making at single-cell resolution across an entire mammalian brain. Traditional neuroscience studies have often focused on small clusters of neurons ...
Adam Nelson, a principal investigator in the UW Department of Zoology and Physiology, led a study that used mice to show that social hierarchy involves status-dependent behavioral interactions that ...
In mice, social ranking in a group was linked to the results of competition, and certain neurons in the brain stored this social ranking information to inform decisions. Manipulating the activity of ...
Oxytocin promotes social behaviors and helps maintain relationships. But clinical trials in patients with autism show variability in how consistently oxytocin improves these behaviors. Steve Chang, ...
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Inscopix, the neuroscience company that transformed real-time brain mapping with its miniature microscope invention, unveiled a new research product, nVoke, at the ...
Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 30, No. 6 (December 2003), pp. 740-755 (16 pages) Although the relationship of psychosocial factors to physical activity has been explored, there is increased ...