Social circles shrink with age due to both life changes and brain network shifts. Aging weakens brain networks for memory and ...

How does the human brain track emotions and support transitions between these emotions? In a new eNeuro paper, Matthew Sachs ...

New research reveals how the brain navigates emotional transitions, using music as a tool to map changing neural patterns.

Decoding the infant brain's emotional blueprint. The research team employed sophisticated Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging (NODDI), a cutting-edge MRI technique that provides ...

Most comprehensive wiring diagram of the mammalian brain to date Date: April 2, 2014 Source: Allen Institute for Brain Science Summary: Researchers have published the first comprehensive, large ...

A study offers a glimpse of how the brain turns experience into emotion. In mice and humans, puffs of air to the eye caused persistent changes in brain activity, suggesting an emotional response.

Combined with the recordings of brain activity, the result is the largest wiring diagram and functional map of the brain to date, containing more than 200,000 cells, four kilometers of axons (the ...

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 ...

Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital found that the organization of adolescents' specific brain circuits was associated with increased emotional vulnerability or increased resilience ...

Dr. Nathan Emery's new book "Bird Brain: An Exploration of Avian Intelligence" is a gold mine of information and surprises about the latest research on bird smarts.

A study offers a glimpse of how the brain turns experience into emotion. In mice and humans, puffs of air to the eye caused persistent changes in brain activity, suggesting an emotional response.

Your brain is moving you through your life going, “Apple, apple, apple…” Fill in the blank, it’s going to be an apple. A lot of times your brain is making smart predictions.