Walk through a grocery store with a child, and you will see it instantly. Candy bars line the checkout aisle, placed exactly at eye level. That placement is not random; it is deliberate stimulus ...

Impulse control issues refer to the difficulty some people have in stopping themselves from engaging in certain behaviors. Common examples include: gambling stealing aggressive behavior toward others ...

Getting out of a chair shouldn't be a struggle. Yet for many older adults, simple everyday movements like this become increasingly difficult as our muscles break down and weaken with age, a process ...

In a recent study of more than 900 rats, Shelly Flagel and her team of neuroscientists at the University of Michigan found that a region in the thalamus of rats regulates a circuit linked to the ...