Perseveration is the persistent repetition of a word, phrase or gesture despite discontinuing the original stimulus that led to the word, phrase or gesture. It is a very common symptom of Alzheimer’s ...

AT an inter-sectional discussion on perseveration in Section J (Psychology) of the British Association meeting at Aberdeen, Dr. Wynn Jones, who opened the discussion, indicated that manifestations of ...

In a recent Nature study, researchers discovered that Crym-expressing astrocytes in the central striatum play a key role in the manifestation of repetitive behaviors associated with many ...

Antagonistic neuron populations in the mouse amygdala that control whether the animal engages in social behaviors or asocial repetitive self-grooming have been recently discovered by researchers.