Caltech's John O'Doherty is on a quest to understand how human brains make decisions: how they gather evidence about their environments and their own impacts on these environments and then apply this ...

The brains of problem gamblers react more intensely to near misses than casual gamblers, new research from the University of Cambridge has found. The results could help explain what keeps problem ...

The sports betting boom has drawn in millions of young men. Are recovery efforts for problem gamblers lagging behind? By Erik Vance For this story, Erik Vance spoke to scientists, advocates, ...