Investigating the relationship between large-scale brain activity and behavior can inform us on how a vast array of human behaviors arises from the coordinated activity between neural populations 1,2.

Risky behavior is a heritable trait that can have negative mental health consequences. It has been associated with variability in cortical structure and function, but the relation between cortex, gene ...

Recently, I came across a helpful article by William Baum (2018) 1 on the “three laws of behavior.” Baum is a behavior analyst who works in the tradition of B. F. Skinner, and the article focuses on ...

How does a neuroscientific biological perspective explain behavior? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand ...

If math isn’t your friend (it isn’t always mine), that’s okay. Lewin’s equation says behavior is a function (the f) of a particular person and their environment. Makes sense. P includes your history, ...

The term “behavioral health” refers to the connection between a person’s habits, actions, and emotional well-being, which affect their overall health. Behavioral health encompasses mental health ...

Behavioral therapy is a broad term that refers to several therapeutic techniques to treat mental health disorders. This form of therapy suggests that all behaviors occur due to learning them from ...

What you do–and therefore, what you achieve–is a function of behavior and environment. Why do we act the way we do? That’s a question psychologist Kurt Lewin set out to answer when he proposed a ...