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

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

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

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“It all started from an accidental observation,” says Li Zhang, a systems neuroscientist at the Keck School of Medicine of ...

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Municipal leaders in a small, Michigan city known as a hotbed for white supremacy are working to clean up its reputation, but ...