Your brain is highly sensitive to a lot of factors beyond your willpower — but you’re not completely powerless.

A new study in the journal *Appetite* suggests that the brain’s reward centers can remain active in response to tempting food cues even after a person is full. Experts say this automatic response may ...

Many of our responses occur automatically without benefit of conscious awareness. This automatic level of consciousness, or automatic pilot as we can call it, operates in much the same way as a ...