From the age of three, the 12th Century nun, mystic, poet and composer Hildegard von Bingen had dazzling visions of shimmering points of light and falling stars, which she recorded in detail in her ...

In your life so far, "Why did I say something like that?" "Why did I make that kind of decision?" Have you ever had the ...

Fear keeps humans alive. It is one of our most basic instincts. A tiger roars, a gunshot rings out, or a truck rattles around a corner too close to where we are standing, and our bodies leap into ...

Teaching: Use the student activities to teach how prosocial behavior can enhance the giver’s mental and physical health.

But a tragic sequence of events ultimately led to Martin stabbing Hawkwing to death in the early hours of April 18, 2025, ...

Addiction and Impulse from the Perspective of Brain FunctionWhen understanding addiction, it is important to consider "the brain's mechanism for seeking rewards" and "the brain's mechanism for ...

A neuroimaging study involving participants from the fetal period up into the first four years of life found that the volume of the amygdala region of the brain increases with age and that this ...

Summary: Evaluating a massive cohort of nearly 6,000 youth, the investigators discovered that a child’s raw amygdala activity when viewing emotional faces acts as an isolated biological crystal ball, ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers have unveiled new insights into how the basolateral amygdala (BLA), a critical brain structure implicated in emotional ...

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala-the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making-is simply the brain's primitive "fear ...

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Neurons that specifically reduce and modulate electrical brain activity have a greater influence on emotional memories than previously thought. DZNE researchers came to this conclusion based on ...