The limbic system helps regulate emotional and social processing, as well as learning, motivation, and memory. It consists of structures that lie beneath the outer, wrinkly part of the brain and above ...

As emotions rise and fall in everyday life, your brain keeps up, constantly adjusting. These transitions between feelings—like joy, sadness, or fear—aren’t just random reactions. They’re part of a ...

In a comprehensive Genomic Press research article, scientists have uncovered remarkable insights into how the earliest brain connections shape infant emotional development, potentially offering new ...

Stress influences what we learn and remember. The hormone cortisol, which is released during stressful situations, can make emotional memories in particular stronger. But how exactly does cortisol ...

In many therapeutic conversations about emotion, there is an implicit assumption: that the task is to identify what someone is feeling—and to name it more precisely. From a contemporary neuroscience ...

A mouse model displaying depression-like behaviors was established by exposing animals to chronic variable stress (left). A multi-omics approach was then applied, using high-resolution mass ...

Findings suggest prenatal sleep quality as a key factor influencing infant brain and emotional outcomes. Study: Association between prenatal maternal sleep quality, neonatal uncinate fasciculus white ...

Emotions are not weaknesses or problems to suppress but signals to interpret. They are intelligent messengers designed to protect, inform, and guide you. Every emotion carries information about what ...

Get cut off in rush-hour traffic and you may feel angry for the whole trip, or even snap at a noisy child in the back seat. Get an unexpected smile from that same kid and you may feel like rush hour — ...

Stress influences what we learn and remember. The hormone cortisol, which is released during stressful situations, can make emotional memories in particular stronger. But how exactly does cortisol ...