The temporoparietal junction (TPJ) plays a crucial role in social cognition, empathy, and moral decision-making.

Chronic physical pain can be debilitating, but feelings of stress, fear, and hunger can sometimes suppress painful sensations ...

Subtle activation of a small subset of neurons in one region of the brain can make male mice resilient to, and even reverse, the detrimental effects of chronic stress. The same is true for female ...

In a study, scientists have shown neurotransmitters in the human brain are active during the processing of the emotional content of language, providing new understanding into how people interpret the ...

The link between poor sleep and mental health problems could be related to deficits in brain regions that keep unwanted thoughts out of mind, according to research from the University of East ...

Diverse neurons across different brain regions play a role in carefully orchestrating the pain response in animals. Scientists at the Center for Neuroscience (CNS), Indian Institute of Science ...

In two new studies, researchers made mice resilient to stress by activating neurons in different brain regions and found that the changes involved are highly sex-specific New research finds sex ...

Nov. 26, 2024 — Healing the gut may be the key to improving long-term recovery in stroke patients, scientists have found. The latest of multiple studies highlights the potential of this novel ...

Depressed, anxious, and stuck? Your "lizard brain" may be part of the problem. New research shows how the amygdala helps us to figure out others’ mental states.

I analyzed open source data from more than 1,000 participants to discover that readers of varying abilities had distinct traits in brain anatomy. The structure of two regions in the left ...