Imagine, for a moment, you are a parent trying to limit how much dessert your sugar-craving young children can eat....

Let's say you've just found a nice jacket in a store and are deciding whether to buy it. It's a...

Some mental illnesses may stem, in part, from the brain's inability to correctly assign emotional associations to events. For example,...

When you hold in mind a sentence you have just read or a phone number you're about to dial, you're...

In the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, patients are often unable to remember recent experiences. However, a new study from...

Humans, like all social animals, have a fundamental need for contact with others. This deeply ingrained instinct helps us to...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, in a 1932 opinion, wrote that a state could be a 'laboratory' for policy,...

When the brain forms memories or learns a new task, it encodes the new information by tuning connections between neurons....

Sleep is usually considered an all-or-nothing state: The brain is either entirely awake or entirely asleep. However, MIT neuroscientists have...

MIT researchers are developing a computer system that uses genetic, demographic, and clinical data to help predict the effects of...

When the eyes are open, visual information flows from the retina through the optic nerve and into the brain, which...

When you remember a particular experience, that memory has three critical elements -- what, when, and where. MIT neuroscientists have...

About 8 million Americans suffer from nightmares and flashbacks to a traumatic event. This condition, known as post-traumatic stress disorder...

MIT neuroscientists have shown that they can cure the symptoms of depression in mice by artificially reactivating happy memories that...

Some decisions arouse far more anxiety than others. Among the most anxiety-provoking are those that involve options with both positive...