Motivating patients to make lasting lifestyle changes is one of medicine’s biggest challenges; health coaching can improve patient outcomes and reduce provider burnout.

When contending with this challenge, the designer of an incentive system faces an important tradeoff between inducing high levels of motivation and inducing the right types of behavior. All incentive ...

Behavior change is far more complex than medical adherence—it requires motivation, consistency, and long-term effort. How do we help patients make the changes they need to heal? One answer is to ...

Our lab conducts research on the interplay of motivational and cognitive processes in human behavior. We examine the role of cognitive processes in self-regulation and achievement behavior. Examples ...

Motivation is what energizes, maintains, and controls your behavior against internal and external forces. The type of motivation in different situations can help you excel. The type of motivation ...

and real life behavior. The ultimate goal of our work is to capture as many aspects as possible of the complexity that makes up social interactions. Current research examines how motivation and social ...

Activation of DNR serotonin neurons can therefore lead to changes in motivation and behavior. Combining the new technique of high field MRI and optogenetics presented many obstacles that Dr.