Humans have unique brain connections affecting emotions, social intelligence, and language, unlike chimpanzees or macaques.

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Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a 3D imaging method to precisely map and categorize the social ...

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Early-life adversity affects over half of children worldwide, increasing the risk of cognitive and mental health issues later ...

Early-life adversity affects more than half of the world's children and is a significant risk factor for cognitive and mental health problems later in life. In an extensive and up-to-the-minute review ...

Social support is thought to be an adaptive response to extreme stressors, Platt said. This means that having strong social ...

A Harvard team studying mice found that the brain processes isolation and loneliness like hunger and thirst, highlighting the ...

Researchers have discovered how specific brain circuits process empathy, showing that witnessing others in pain activates the ...

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Multi-dimensional social relationships dynamically shape attentional biases toward in-group and out-group conspecifics in monkeys, with oxytocin modulating these interactions to reveal neurobiological ...

Overlaying reality with simulations advances research and interventions in human behavior and neurodegenerative disorders.