We're all familiar with Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward-anticipatory behavior follows a reward-predicting stimulus. Perhaps you experience it yourself when passing a cafe or restaurant and ...

Most people are familiar with Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward-anticipatory behavior follows a reward-predicting ...

Dementia symptoms are generally hard to ignore, but they may be preceded by physical changes that aren't so obvious.

Source: Getty Images At an early stage, basal cell carcinoma is small and confined, and usually can be cured. When the cancer gets larger and grows deeper in the skin or spreads to other organs ...

Objectives To measure iron accumulation in the basal ganglia in Huntington's disease (HD) using quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM), and to ascertain its relevance in terms of clinical and ...

Background The ability to predict outcome after stroke is clinically important for planning treatment and for stratification in restorative clinical trials. In relation to the upper limbs, the main ...

They are generally treated with drugs that target the prefrontal cortex, but our findings suggest that we should be testing whether drugs that target the basal ganglia and thalamus help to improve ...

They are generally treated with drugs that target the prefrontal cortex, but our findings suggest that we should be testing whether drugs that target the basal ganglia and thalamus help to improve ...

Using hormonal birth control methods may significantly increase a person's risk of experiencing a stroke or heart attack, with some methods carrying higher risks than others, a recent large study ...

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It can sometimes be difficult to differentiate the signs of a stroke versus those of a seizure. Both can cause sudden confusion accompanied by the loss of muscle control and speech. However, with a ...

In other words, a person's immune system attacks the fatty covering of nerve fibers (called the myelin sheath) in areas of the brain that control emotion, behavior, and personality like the: Amygdala ...