Which brain mechanisms can we use to consciously suppress behavior? Psychologists in the Netherlands have demonstrated that voluntary action control -- such as braking in time for a traffic light -- ...

Patients with Parkinson's disease can voluntarily control beta waves in their deep brain -- a finding that suggests a new approach for managing disease-related brain activity. Parkinson's disease is ...

HR benefits managers at manufacturing firms across the U.S. are struggling to attract and retain good people, to control double-digit cost increases in core benefit plans, and to effectively ...

Advances in the fields of cognitive and affective neuroscience and biological psychiatry have allowed us to identify the neural systems underlying emotion regulation and how abnormalities in these ...

This study was undertaken to validate the surface electromyography (sEMG)-based voluntary response index (VRI) as an objective, quantitative, laboratory measure of spinal cord injury severity in terms ...

Dr. Beatriz Luna is an associate professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the director of the Laboratory of Neurocognitive Development, where she uses ...

How does the brain control the precision of movement of our body parts? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better ...

In Ethiopia, environmental activism might appear a little uncustomary to some. Health workers can be seen going door-to-door delivering pamphlets about restoring the country’s forest—and they might be ...

Weight control is the result of a complex integration of many factors, including environmental, genetic, neuro-endocrinological, and psychosocial. There is no question that much of weight control is ...

Patients with Parkinson's disease can voluntarily control β waves in their deep brain, representing a new approach toward managing disease-related brain activity Parkinson's disease is associated with ...