As emotions rise and fall in everyday life, your brain keeps up, constantly adjusting. These transitions between feelings—like joy, sadness, or fear—aren’t just random reactions. They’re part of a ...

Whatever brings you — or your partner or child — into therapy, the world of mental health care is changing fast to respond to the extreme stress most of us are feeling now.  A new psychotherapy, ...

Researchers have discovered how inferred emotions are learned. The study shows that the frontal part of the brain coordinates with the amygdala -- a brain region important for simple forms of ...

Emotions guide our actions. They help us decide whether to start, maintain, shift, or stop what we are doing—based on our current bodily state, the surrounding context, and the meaning we give to both ...

On the other hand, if a brain disorder causes the second wave of brain activity to decay too slowly or to accumulate excessive strength (perhaps due to differences in brain wiring or gene expression, ...

People sometimes feel trapped and helpless in their situations. There is one emotion that can be powerful enough to transform ...

Traumatic experiences reorganize the brain, essentially rewiring it in an effect known as neuroplasticity. Early intervention ...

Scientists have uncovered remarkable insights into how the earliest brain connections shape infant emotional development, potentially offering new ways to identify children at risk for future ...

Dallas students from an elementary school where at least 80% of students come from low-income families are projected to earn ...

In a collaboration between Turun yliopisto and the University of Turku, researchers led by Birgitta Paranko and Lauri ...