Oxytocin was found to significantly improve non-social decision making in a healthy sample, suggesting a domain-general function of the hormone, in contrast to its previously hypothesized social domain specificity.

Optogenetic approaches in young and aged rats define multiple roles for basolateral amygdala in guiding intertemporal choice, and show that these roles change across the lifespan.

Spectral clustering applied to risk trajectories of sepsis patients discovered four distinct clusters stratified by risk of septic shock, mortality, and treatments received prior to an abrupt physiological transition.

Cost–benefit integration between the desirability of the expected reward and the imposed delay to delivery is supported by STN signals that dynamically combined both reward-related attributes to form a single integrated value estimate along an antero-posterior axis in this nucleus.

Drift diffusion models suggest that dopamine affects dissociable components of the decision process in intertemporal choice, underlining the importance of analyzing the effects of neural interventions with process models.

Analyses of cell type-specific data show that the maternal alleles of genes related to establishing and breaking seed dormancy are suppressed by different combinations of epigenetic marks in the endosperm of Arabidopsis.

Some immature neurons in the cerebral cortex of mammals might wait for years before they become activated and finish their development.

Sex differences in impulsive decision making, such that males are less impulsive than females, are critically dependent upon testicular but not ovarian hormones.

A new and throughly validated method for timely estimation of the effective reproductive number of SARS-CoV-2 aided in the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mutational inactivation of the JNK signaling pathway causes genomic instability and breast cancer development.