Researchers discovered two brain regions crucial for social gaze in primates. Stimulating the orbitofrontal cortex increased ...

With her postgame remarks, the Indiana Fever's Caitlin Clark demonstrates the remarkable power of positive self-talk.

One of my favorite studies is one reported in 2007 in Current Biology, “The Human Emotional Brain Without Sleep—A Prefrontal ...

The key nodes of the network identified by the researchers were putamen, amygdala and claustrum located deep within the brain ...

For animals such as primates, the act of gazing plays a key role in social interaction, used to both send and gather ...

The hypothesis has two central and related components. The first component is the purported role of the amygdala in the rapid, automatic and non-conscious processing of emotional and social stimuli.

Stuttering is a neurological condition, not a psychological one, and scientists in Finland now believe they've found the ...

Wearing a seat belt is all you need to do to be physically safe. To feel safe, you may need to change the "valence code" ...

Known as 'transient global amnesia,' this not-so-rare phenomenon has been described in connection with emotionally-charged ...

Hafeez explains that the regions of the brain involved in love are the amygdala, the hypothalamus, the nucleus accumbens and ...

Yes, please!People who meditate regularly swear by it, but others are often skeptical of it, thinking it’s a little, you know, woo-woo.But what if we told you that meditation is actually a powerful ...

Threats to my job real and imagined keep my amygdala firing throughout my days. Goals at the company I work for remain in flux; it's hard to predict which way to march. I survive multiple rounds of ...