Severe self-injurious behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) poses a significant risk of permanent physical injury.

Huntington's disease is a rare genetic, autosomal dominant, neurodegenerative disease, caused by CAG repeat expansions in the HTT gene, that is polymorphic on the healthy allele and contains more than ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that doing just one new thing each day can significantly improve mood, ...

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

We're all familiar with Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward-anticipatory behavior follows a reward-predicting stimulus.

The new work sheds light on the role of striatum in motor control, information that could help researchers better understand movement disorders, like Parkinson's and Huntington's.

Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Maersk Tower 7.5, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Department of Bioinformatics, H Lundbeck A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark ...

Here, we investigated the role of the anterior dorsal striatum (ADS) in a rodent auditory evidence accumulation task using a combination of behavioral, pharmacological, optogenetic, ...

The striatum has traditionally mainly been associated with playing a key role in the modulation of motor functions. Indeed, lesion studies in animals and studies of some neurological conditions in ...