Environmental stimuli and objects, including rewards, are often processed sequentially in
the brain. Recent work suggests that the phasic dopamine reward prediction-error response …

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by two seemingly unrelated symptom
domains—deficits in social interactions and restrictive, repetitive patterns of behavioral …

Besides their fundamental movement function evidenced by Parkinsonian deficits, the basal
ganglia are involved in processing closely linked non-motor, cognitive and reward …

Background: Increased gut permeability (leaky gut) and alterations in gut microbiota are now
widely accepted as relevant to the etiology, course and treatment of many neuropsychiatric …

Neuronal reward valuations provide the physiological basis for economic behaviour. Yet,
how such valuations are converted to economic decisions remains unclear. Here we show …

The frontal cortex has been implicated in a number of cognitive and motivational processes,
but understanding how individual neurons contribute to these processes is particularly …

Personal success often necessitates expending greater effort for greater reward but, equally
important, also requires judicious use of our limited cognitive resources (eg, attention) …

Pathological gambling is an addictive disorder characterized by an irresistible urge to
gamble despite severe consequences. One of the hallmarks of pathological gambling is …

Decision making is an adaptive behavior that takes into account several internal and
external input variables and leads to the choice of a course of action over other available …

We describe a technique to semichronically record the cortical extracellular neural activity in
the behaving monkey employing commercial high-density electrodes. After the design and …