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A recent Trump executive order defines sex based on gamete size. But the order oversimplifies genetics, hormones and reproductive biology.

Research in mice identifies brain circuitry that supports certain reward-based decisions.

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Every day, our brain makes thousands of decisions, big and small. Any of these decisions—from the least consequential, such ...

Researchers analyzed human motivation from an evolutionary perspective, identifying 15 key motives that drive behavior.

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Striatal dopamine (DA) release regulates reward-related learning and behavioural activation and is believed to consist of a short-lived phasic and continuous tonic component. Here, we build a ...

Cognitive maturation refers to the biological development of the brain by which an individual’s thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving abilities evolve and become more sophisticated as they grow ...