WASHINGTON, DC — Motivational interviewing, a conversational style designed to "strengthen a person's motivation and commitment to change," is more than just a technique, according to Auguste Fortin ...

A new review of studies says that addressing tobacco use without judging the user appears to help people quit, especially if a primary care physician uses a form of supportive counseling called ...

Various aspects of feeding behavior (eg consumption, motivation and anticipation) are regulated by homeostatic and hedonic systems, and are modulated by dopaminergic and opioid brain systems. Here, we ...

Incentive motivation, or the attraction to external stimuli that have appetitive or rewarding properties, is central to many normal and abnormal behaviors (Robbins and Everitt, 2003; Robinson and ...

Curiosity is the motivational drive for exploring and investigating the unknown and making new discoveries. It is as essential and intrinsic for survival as hunger. Until recently, the brain ...