Successful goal-directed behavior requires not only correct action selection, planning, and
execution but also the ability to flexibly adapt behavior when performance problems occur or …

In the young of many mammalian species, including humans, a vigorous and highly
rewarding social activity is abundantly expressed, known as social play behaviour. Social …

The brain reward circuit has a central role in reinforcing behaviors that are rewarding and
preventing behaviors that lead to punishment. Recent work has shown that the lateral …

While chronic pain is considered by some to be a CNS disease, little is understood about
underlying neurobiological mechanisms. Addiction models have heuristic value in this …

Surviving in a world with hidden rewards and dangers requires choosing the appropriate
behaviours. Recent discoveries indicate that the habenula plays a prominent part in such …

The cellular basis of depressive disorders is poorly understood. Recent studies in monkeys
indicate that neurons in the lateral habenula (LHb), a nucleus that mediates communication …

Although Parkinson disease (PD) is viewed traditionally as a motor syndrome secondary to
nigrostriatal dopaminergic denervation, recent studies emphasize non-motor features. Non …

Social behavior encompasses a number of distinctive and complex constructs that form the
core elements of human imitative culture, mainly represented as either affiliative or …

The second edition of The Lateralized Brain provides for readers a volume detailing the
functional and structural differences between the left and right hemispheres of the brain …

Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are a heterogeneous family of
pentameric ligand-gated cation channels that are expressed throughout the brain and …