Decision-making Archives - Knowing Neurons

Mass incarceration is a public health crisis with particular relevance to the neuroscience community. Much of our work as neuroscientists revolves around the criminal justice system, including mental illness, adolescent… Read More

A neuron halfway between winter and summer season backgrounds. Illustrated by McCall Sarrett.

Big Ideas Culture Learning and Memory Sensation and Perception

Marco Travaglio January 31, 2019January 31, 2019 Attention, Climate, Cognitive, Decision-making, glucose, Memory, Metabolism, seasonal affective disorder, Temperature, Winter

Is Winter Good for Your Neurons?

It is that time of the year again. Whilst the Southern Hemisphere is coping with the sweltering heat of the summer, cold is sweeping across the rest of the globe,… Read More

Brain Development Culture

Jack-Morgan Mizell August 23, 2018August 23, 2018 Adolescence, Adolescent, Adults, Aging, Anterior insula, Brain, Brain activity, Brain vulnerability, Cognitive neuroscience, Consequences, Decision-making, Development, Experience, Harvard, Insula, neurobiology, Neurodevelopment, Neuroscience, Sensory systems, Spindle neuron, Striatum, Teenagers, Teens, Von Economo neuron, WHO, World Health Organization

What Were You Thinking!?: Teenagers show different processing of positive and negative consequences across adolescence

Anyone who has spent time around teenagers knows they don’t always consider the full consequences of their actions. Just consider the dozens of YouTube videos involving falling dressers or fireworks… Read More

Brain Stimulation: Learning Method of the 21st Century

Learning and Memory Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Sensation and Perception

Amin Kamaleddin April 4, 2018April 2, 2018 Brain, brain stimulation, Consciousness, Decision-making, Free Will, Learning, neuroprosthetics, premotor cortex, stroke

Brain Stimulation: A Learning Method for the 21st Century

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat is happening in the brain when you decide to reach your hand and grasp a cup of coffee early in the morning? First, the posterior parietal cortex of your… Read More

Brain Basics Did You Know?

knowingneurons October 1, 2014March 5, 2017 Amygdala, Decision-making, Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex, Medial Prefrontal Cortex, Posterior Cingulate Cortex, Punishment

Walking the Line: The Complexity of Punishment Decisions

One night, Mark withdraws $200 cash from an ATM. He is on his way to meet his family, and intends to treat everyone to a special dinner at his favorite… Read More

Oh Rats Theyll Regret This Knowing Neurons

Brain Basics Neuro News

Anita July 30, 2014March 5, 2017 2014, A David Redish, Adam P Steiner, Behavioral Neuroscience, Brain, Decision, Decision-making, Food Preference, Nature Neuroscience, Neuroscience, OFC, Orbitofrontal cortex, Regret, Restaurant Row, Reward, Risk, Ventral striatum

Oh, Rats! They’ll Regret This.

We often find ourselves in decision-making dilemmas along the day. For instance, to reach work on time, would you rather take the shorter, faster route or the longer, scenic route?… Read More

Brain Basics Did You Know?Learning and Memory Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Jillian L. Shaw June 5, 2013March 5, 2017 A Beautiful Mind, Decision-making, Endocytosis, John Forbes Nash Jr., Neuregulin-1, NRG-1, Paranoid schizophrenia, Protein, Recylcing, SNARE, synaptic, synaptic plasticity, Synaptophysin, vesicle

A Beautiful Mind, A Dysfunctional Synapse

“I felt like I might get divine revelation by seeing a certain number; a great coincidence could be interpreted as a message from heaven.” – John Nash in “A Brilliant… Read More