New research sheds light on how the brain's prefrontal cortex evaluates whether to persist or quit in uncertain situations.

When does waiting stop being worth it? A new study reveals what's going on in your brain when it comes to persistence.

You're standing at a bus stop, waiting for a ride that seems like it will never come. At first, you're hopeful that it will ...

The prefrontal cortex is a cortical area located in the anterior frontal lobe, including several subdivisions (e.g. ventromedial, dorsolateral, orbitofrontal cortices). The prefrontal cortex ...

Psychologists looked at individuals with damage to different parts of the prefrontal cortex to reveal how the brain evaluates uncertainty and guides split-second decisions.

Our study adds to a growing body of work suggesting that impaired financial decision-making may serve as an early behavioral ...

Study reveals diminished brain activity related to empathy for pain in individuals with behavioral variant frontotemporal ...

You're standing at a bus stop, waiting for a ride that seems like it will never come. At first, you're hopeful that it will be here any second. But as ...

Stress permeates daily life, shaping our emotional and physiological responses. While stress responses are vital for survival ...

The entorhinal cortex is critical for communication between the hippocampus, important for memory retrieval and forecasting oneself into the future, and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex ...