A specific pattern of brain activity in a frontal brain region is linked to compulsive behaviors like excessive hand washing, ...

Researchers studying obsessive-compulsive disorder have identified a specific brain signal that appears to precede the onset ...

Picture a star-shaped cell in the brain, stretching its spindly arms out to cradle the neurons around it. That's an astrocyte, and for a long time, scientists thought its job was caretaking the brain, ...

New research on the "Reward Positivity" brain signal distinguishes between rewards and goals, offering a new way to measure ...