Your emotions function as a personal GPS, signaling what matters most—your values, safety, and relationships. Here's how to ...

Your brain is not one integrated system. Conscious thoughts, the words that go through your head, occur primarily in your cortex, which is the outer six layers of brain cells. It also processes the ...

The human brain is an amazingly mysterious organ. Although we control some brain functions, much of our brain’s inner workings are well beyond our control. Consider, for example, that it keeps our ...

Most people spend their lives chasing success, dreaming of the day they finally achieve their goals. Yet there's a hidden ...

Emotions are an important part of human intelligence. Identifying specific emotional categories from complex neural patterns, i.e., the neural decoding of emotional information, is a key issue in ...

Around 70% of women who suffer a sexual assault develop PTSD. Now, scientists have shown that many of these women show a ...

Around 70% of women who suffer a sexual assault develop PTSD; now scientists have shown that many of these women show a marked reduction in the usual communication between two important brain areas ...

Whether you’re watching a horror movie or in a haunted house for Halloween, the adrenaline rush from fear is hard to match.

The Drug Education Council is putting their heads together to help students think smarter about brain health. Standing 12 ...

When a person views a photograph of a hairy, looming spider or a slithering snake in a laboratory experiment, scientists usually see markers of increased electrical activity deep in that person’s ...

Your autonomic nervous system (ANS) is the part of your central nervous system (CNS) that controls unconscious activities like breathing and digestion. This system is always working, whether or not ...