Teenagers become more exploratory in their behaviors with age, becoming increasingly likely to visit new places over time, finds a new study. Its results also show that greater exploration is ...

Due to strain-specific behavioral idiosyncrasies, inbred mouse strains are suboptimal research models for behavioral aging studies. The researchers found that both males and females demonstrated ...

Exploratory behavior is one of the fundamental personality traits of animals – and these traits influence their probability of survival, among other things. For example, curious individuals can ...

Teenagers become more exploratory in their behaviors with age, becoming increasingly likely to visit new places over time, finds a new study. Its results also show that greater exploration is ...

Whether you are an anxious type, or a fearless person - such individual differences in personality could be partly due to the genes you carry. In humans, it is hard to prove the existence of such ...

Exploratory behavior is one of the fundamental personality traits of animals – and these traits influence their probability of survival, among other things. For example, curious individuals can ...

We purchased 15 Swiss Webster mice from the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD) for this study. These mice were about 10 weeks old at the start of the study; female mice weighed about 20 g ...

One of the first things any parent notices about their growing infants and toddlers is their enhanced ability to explore. But what is it that motivates young minds to do so? Is it simply that kids ...

There’s no question that hormones affect the brain—and if they affect the brain, that means they can affect behavior, too. That logic has long justified leaving female mice out of neuroscience studies ...

A popular theory in neuroscience proposes that slow development of the prefrontal cortex explains teenagers' seemingly impulsive and risky behavior. But an extensive literature review finds that much ...