If the brainstem is survival and the cortex is sophistication, then the limbic system is poetry.

Why are teens so dramatic? There are good explanations from neuroscience. In order to answer this question, I am going to reduce the brain to emotional versus logical systems. The emotional system is ...

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers explore how live and recorded music stimulates the brain, with live music found to induce stronger and ...

Are there areas of the brain that regulate prosocial, altruistic behavior? Together with colleagues from the universities in Lausanne, Utrecht and Cape Town, researchers from Heinrich Heine University ...

In the dim glow of an Uber rushing through Mumbai at rush hour, Simran grips her phone like a talisman, her heart pounding as a stranger's cough echoes too close. Sweat beads on her forehead; her ...

Rather than a single hyperactive area causing emotional instability, recent research points to network-wide communication. Scientists found that neuroticism involves tight connections between the ...

WPI researchers have used a form of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze anatomical changes in the brain and predict Alzheimer's disease with nearly 93% accuracy. Their research, published in the ...