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How messenger substances influence individual decision-making

by SoP | Feb 11, 2021 | Brain | 0 comments

A research team of psychologists and physicists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg investigated the neurobiological processes in different types of decision-making. In the journal Nature Communications, they...

Scientists Uncover Why You Can’t Decide What to Order for Lunch

by SoP | Oct 13, 2018 | News | 0 comments

Researchers explore the choice overload effect, a phenomenon that hampers the brain’s ability to make a decision when there are too many options.

Disorders of compulsivity share a common pattern of decision-making

by SoP | Jun 4, 2014 | Brain | 3 comments

Disorders of compulsivity share a common pattern of decision-making and brain structure New research conducted at the University of Cambridge suggests people affected by binge eating, substance abuse, and obsessive compulsive disorder all share a common pattern of...