For decades, neuroscientists have been trying to uncover the neural processes that allow humans and various other animals to ...

Why does a comforting touch stay with us for years, while other sensations quickly fade from our minds? A new paper offers a ...

While tics have been considered to result from an aberrant function of the brain's motor cortex, a Kobe University mouse ...

Scientists have identified two specific types of brain cells that behave differently in people with depression, offering a ...

We all have negative thoughts from time to time. But what if those fleeting moments of pessimism were doing more than just dampening your mood? According to new research, the way you think doesn't ...

In many therapeutic conversations about emotion, there is an implicit assumption: that the task is to identify what someone is feeling—and to name it more precisely. From a contemporary neuroscience ...

Emojis are more than just fun symbols - your brain responds to them like real faces, according to new research.