Affective neuroscience provides a unique framework to understand the fundamental emotional processes that govern human behaviour and personality. Rooted in evolutionary theory, this field elucidates ...

Drexel’s Bachelor of Science (BS) in Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary program for students interested in the biological bases of thought and behavior. This major is well-suited for students ...

Neuroscience is a vast field of study containing a range of narrower subfields. Each involves a spotlight on the brain and other parts of the nervous system, connecting them to one or more zones of ...

Jennifer Kubota, associate professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, has been nominated president-elect of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS), a leading ...

There's an optimal strategy for winning multiple rounds of rock, paper, scissors: be as random and unpredictable as possible.

Affective pain leads to inhibition of dopamine neurons decreasing motivation, but it can be restored. Washington University in St. Louis (MI, USA) researchers have uncovered the neuronal circuitry in ...

Differential Effects of Tryptophan Depletion on Emotion Processing Reading facial emotion is disrupted by both psychopathology, such as autism, and altered function of neurotransmitter, such as ...

Neuroscience is a vast field of study containing a range of narrower subfields. Each involves a spotlight on the brain and other parts of the nervous system, connecting them to one or more zones of ...

Trait Inferences in Goal-directed Behavior This study is the first attempt at unraveling the dynamics of multiple social inferences in the brain.