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

Researchers have revealed neural circuits in the brainstem that are crucially involved in implementing decisions by controlling three fundamental behavioral states or strategies: perseverance, ...

Over the course of their lives, humans and other animals typically learn to avoid situations and stimuli that are dangerous ...

A research team has uncovered key insights into how the brain processes others' distress. Using miniature endoscopic calcium imaging, the researchers identified specific neural ensembles in the ...

When they inhibited the ACC-to-PAG circuit, empathic freezing ... This approach provides new insights into the fundamental neural mechanisms of affective empathy. Understanding how the brain encodes ...

Brain organoids, three-dimensional models of the brain, are a boon to neuroscience, making it possible to study the ...

Look around, and you'll see it everywhere: the way trees form branches, the way cities divide into neighborhoods, the way the ...

It doesn't matter how full you are, you can always fit in a bite or two or three of pie and ice cream. Scientists say it has ...

Deep brain stimulation or DBS involves implanting a small electrode into specific areas of the brain. This then delivers ...

The discovery of ‘ovoid cells’ is transforming our understanding of memory and may pave the way for new treatments for ...