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Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age

October 29, 2020 by

Neuroscientists have identified a brain circuit critical for learning to make decisions that require evaluating the cost or reward of an action. They showed this circuit is negatively affected by aging and in Huntington's disease.

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