Our brain makes decisions based on direct associations between stimuli in our environment, but it often also does so based on events that initially appear unrelated. How does it achieve this? A recent ...

Whenever something bad happens to us, brain systems responsible for mediating emotions kick in to prevent it from happening again. When we get stung by a wasp, the association between pain and wasps ...

Scientists sought to better understand how humans evolved to become so skilled at thinking about what's happening in other peoples' minds. The findings could have implications for one day treating ...

Fear is an adaptive emotion that helps us cope with threatening situations. Deep within the temporal lobe of the brain is the amygdala, the most studied brain area involved in fear. The amygdala uses ...

Autism likely isn’t caused by faulty connections to the amygdala, as theorized Brain scans showed similar variation in connectivity in the brain region between people with and without autism ...

Researchers have identified a correlation between high levels of stress in the brain and heart disease. Source: Naeblys/Shutterstock Groundbreaking research from Harvard Medical School shows that ...