Motivational interviewing is a counseling method that helps people resolve ambivalent feelings and insecurities to find the internal motivation they need to change their behavior. It is a ...

Rollnick, S., Miller, W.R., and Butler, C.C. (2007). Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior. The Guilford Press, NY. This book is written specifically for ...

While motivational interviewing is certainly more time-consuming than a lecture, the research shows it helps to change patient behaviors for a wide variety of health problems and lifestyle choices.

This research provides insight into the mechanisms by which the brain tracks motivational states to shape instrumental actions. For the study, mice first had to be trained in a foraging-like behavior, ...

Recently conducted randomized clinical trial aimed to assess the effectiveness of app-based moderate to vigorous physical ...

Part of what Pace practices is motivational interviewing (MI) – getting patients to be part of the treatment protocol and getting “buy-in” to the idea of changing their behavior.

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Researchers at the University of Kentucky were part of a team that discovered a key protein in the brain that can regulate motivation for reward in mice. The study, titled "Deletion of murine ...