Habits

Science Daily: How the brain makes, and breaks, a habit - Neuroscience study identifies brain chemicals, neural pathway involved in switching between habitual behavior, deliberate decision-making

summary - Not all habits are bad. Some are even necessary. But inability to switch from acting habitually to acting in a deliberate way can underlie addiction and obsessive compulsive disorders. Working with a mouse model, an international team of researchers demonstrates what happens in the brain for habits to control behavior.