In a recent study published in PNAS, researchers investigated the impact of drum training on behavior and brain function in autistic adolescents with no prior drumming experience. Autism spectrum ...

Investigating the relationship between large-scale brain activity and behavior can inform us on how a vast array of human behaviors arises from the coordinated activity between neural populations 1,2.

In a world grappling with the complexities of mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, and PTSD, new research from Boston University neuroscientist Dr. Steve Ramirez and collaborators offers ...

Researchers at Kanazawa University have identified a previously unrecognized mechanism by which structural changes in the ...

Risky behavior is a heritable trait that can have negative mental health consequences. It has been associated with variability in cortical structure and function, but the relation between cortex, gene ...

How does a neuroscientific biological perspective explain behavior? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand ...

Recently, I came across a helpful article by William Baum (2018) 1 on the “three laws of behavior.” Baum is a behavior analyst who works in the tradition of B. F. Skinner, and the article focuses on ...

Psychologists use the term behavior all the time and more than one current textbook defines psychology as the science of behavior. Yet there is enormous and ongoing confusion regarding what, exactly, ...

What you do–and therefore, what you achieve–is a function of behavior and environment. Why do we act the way we do? That’s a question psychologist Kurt Lewin set out to answer when he proposed a ...

If math isn’t your friend (it isn’t always mine), that’s okay. Lewin’s equation says behavior is a function (the f) of a particular person and their environment. Makes sense. P includes your history, ...