{"id":184292,"date":"2024-03-03T03:25:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T09:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/how-does-the-brain-make-decisions-harvard-scientists-shed-new-light"},"modified":"2024-03-03T03:25:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T09:25:59","slug":"how-does-the-brain-make-decisions-harvard-scientists-shed-new-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/how-does-the-brain-make-decisions-harvard-scientists-shed-new-light","title":{"rendered":"How Does the Brain Make Decisions? Harvard Scientists Shed New Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EqoHHPMP9Jw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have uncovered new insights into the way brain cells, or neurons, interact when making a decision, and how the links between these neurons could reinforce a decision.<\/p>\n<p>The study \u2014 conducted in mice and led by neuroscientists at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/harvard-medical-school\/\">Harvard Medical School<\/a> \u2014 is the first to combine structural, functional, and behavioral analyses to explore how neuron-to-neuron connections support decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were recently published in the journal <em><i>Nature<\/i><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have uncovered new insights into the way brain cells, or neurons, interact when making a decision, and how the links between these neurons could reinforce a decision. The study \u2014 conducted in mice and led by neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School \u2014 is the first to combine structural, functional, and behavioral analyses to explore [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}