Facial emotion representations expand from sensory cortex to prefrontal regions across development, suggesting that the prefrontal cortex matures with development to enable a full understanding of ...

This is the mind’s game behind polarization in humans: our opinions are often less about truth and more about identity.

Sagittal MRI slice with highlighting indicating location of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). Source: Geoff B. Hall/CCO 1.0 Public Domain New research sheds light on how an often overlooked area of ...

The researchers used brain imaging to explore other brain regions affected by sgACC over-activity during threat. Over-activation of sgACC increased activity within the amygdala and hypothalamus, two ...

Anxiety is both a mental and physical state of negative expectation—mentally characterized by increased arousal and negative expectancy tortured into worry, and physically by activation of multiple ...