Although feelings are personal and subjective, the human brain turns them into a standard code that objectively represents emotions across different senses, situations and even people, reports a new study by Cornell University neuroscientist Adam Anderson. "We discovered that fine-grained patterns of ne...
When the brain develops a dependency for opioids, the receptors of the nociceptin system of the CeA become permanently suppressed. This means the patient loses the ability to effectively modulate pain, as well as other emotions. The researchers also found that this leads to an increase in act...
“As a former biomedical engineer, it was exciting to identify some brain regions that are purely unique to regulating emotions,” says lead author Ke Bo, a postdoctoral researcher in the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab (CANlab) at Dartmouth. “Our results provide new insight into how e...
A recentstudypublished inNatureNeuroscienceanswers the question of how the brain processes social cues to recognize emotions accurately. There is a correlation between the activity of the prefrontal cortex and the retrosplenial cortex, a brain circuit that has never been studied p...
This groundbreaking study by Virginia Tech not only links biological processes with the symbolic aspects of language but also suggests that regions of the brain not traditionally associated with emotional or linguistic processing might still engage with this information, potentially influencing behavior. Exp...
There are two contrasting hypotheses that attempt to explain how emotion perception might be organised in the brain. One suggests that all emotions are lateralised to the right hemisphere whereas the other suggests that emotions may be differently lateralised according to valence. Here these two ...
Our research also looks at emotions and how to control them. We know that in our galaxy too, we have more success when we can control our feelings. Therefore, we want to find the brain regions responsible for allowing us to deal with our emotions and to help those children struggling ...
How The Brain is Structured It’s crucial, to begin with, the basic structure of the brain to start to understand how the human mind creates memories and processes thoughts. For the most part, animals all have relativelysimilar brain form. In this essential form, the innermost parts of the...
Social neuroscience models have assumed that people simply rely on their own emotions as a reference for empathy, but recent studies suggest neurobiological underpinnings for how the brain processes empathy. A better understanding of these processes, says the author, could lead to more social cohesion...
Barrett based her lecture on research conducted in the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern, which studies how emotions function in the mind by using experiential, behavioral, psychophysiological and brain-imaging methods. The lab’s working hypothesis is that words for emotion, ...