This article is republished from The Conversation. Heart in your throat. Butterflies in your stomach. Bad gut feeling. These are all phrases many people use to describe fear and anxiety. You have ...

Researchers have discovered a new correlation between neural signaling in the brain and dopamine signaling in the striatum. The human brain requires fast neural signal processing in a short period of ...

New research shows a simple reason why even the most intelligent, complex brains can be taken by a swindler’s story—one that, upon a second look, offers clues it was false. When the brain fires up the ...

Animal brain and body physiology has developed over long evolutionary timescales, enabling organisms to adequately sense and respond to environmental pressures. However, recent accelerated ...

The Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR) in the Institute of Basic Science (IBS), Suwon, Korea, is developing new neuroimaging approaches to explore biophysics, physiology, and biology, and ...

A collaborative effort between Mount Sinai and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has shed valuable light on how monoamine neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine, and now histamine help ...

The brain exhibits a remarkable variety of organized and synchronized activity patterns, yet the mechanisms that generate these dynamics, and how their disruption contributes to neurological disease, ...

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn” a famous quote from Benjamin Franklin that the ...

The brain evolved to control movement, but movement also shapes our thinking. This truth cuts across neuroscience, clinical psychology, exercise physiology, and the psychology of aging. Brain Cells ...