Inhibiting locus coeruleus input to the medial prefrontal cortex in mice impaired task performance, affected the tuning of single cortical neurons and disrupted population dynamics and encoding ...

Much criminal behavior derives from logical, if not laudable, sources. A wonderful example of this was seen in the old Bob Newhart television show. Newhart, playing a clinical psychologist, leans ...

Our memories of past events are typically not isolated, but they are linked to other related memories. This ability to ...

The nightmare that jolts you awake at 3 a.m. isn’t a malfunction. It may be one of the oldest survival systems in the human ...

The timing of trauma determines adult behavioral outcomes like aggression or social anxiety by impacting specific developmental windows in the brain.

A research team from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology), in collaboration with the ...

Museum fatigue is real-and science says it's not just in your head. Here's why wandering through galleries can leave your ...

Suppressing emotion can make leaders worse. A review of 101 studies found having an edge isn’t about staying stoic; it’s ...

Stress, digital overstimulation and chronic sleep loss are placing the human brain under sustained strain. Experts warn this ...

Researchers reveal that TMS repairs depression by regrowing dendritic spines on specific IT neurons in the prefrontal cortex.

A research team from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology), in collaboration with the IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini in Genoa (Italy), has demonstrated that ...

There are three different levels of trauma, and the experience of trauma can negatively affect the human brain in many different ways. According to information that has been posted on the Psychology ...