Humans and other animals gradually learn what sounds or other sensory cues in their surroundings are meaningful or ...

A team of researchers from Spain was curious to know if people with high psychopathic traits have anomalies in the brain's ...

A recent study suggests that high psychopathic traits are linked to reduced thickness in brain regions responsible for processing emotions. This neural pattern appears consistently, regardless of a ...

Depression imposes a major global socioeconomic burden, and current pharmacotherapies face several limitations, including slow efficacy, adverse effects, and non-response rates of up to 55%, ...

Life can be tricky. We have so many decisions to make. It's a good thing we have an orbitofrontal cortex and hippocampus to help us. These areas of the brain work together to help us sort through ...

The brain may organize emotions like locations on a map, revealing a hidden system that helps people interpret changing feelings.