It could apply in a whole host of health and business decision-making situations. If you run a business, you make a lot of ...

Top neurologists told Newsweek of natural, science-backed ways to protect your brain from aging and disease—before symptoms ...

For decades, neuroscientists have been trying to pinpoint the neural underpinnings of behavior and decision-making. Past ...

That got me thinking about the process of decision-making and the paralysis of analysis that can come when you have too much information and time to overthink. In a fireside chat, one of Fast ...

Decisions run our lives. From the moment we wake up and decide to get out of bed to the moment we turn off the light and decide to sleep, we make decisions. Those who can make hard decisions are ...

The average adult makes approximately 35,000 decisions daily, from the mundane selection of breakfast cereals to consequential professional judgments. Yet this constant choosing exacts a toll that ...

Visualization of 75,000 neurons (colored dots) active across the brain of an adult mouse across different stages of a decision-making task. Dot size reflects a cell’s average firing rate, such that ...

Every decision begins invisibly. Long before someone acts, the brain is already hard at work gathering evidence, weighing options, and gradually committing to a choice. But even when faced with the ...

A hunger hormone produced in the gut can directly impact a decision-making part of the brain in order to drive an animal's behavior, finds a new study. A hunger hormone produced in the gut can ...

New research shows the human brain doesn't fully reach its “adult” state until around age 32. This youth-friendly explainer ...

A key to understanding the brain lies in unpacking how hundreds of interconnected brain areas process information that leads to various outputs. In order to try to understand this, researchers ...