According to a paper published in the journal Brain, there are circuits in our minds that contribute to our levels of political intensity, and researchers recently revealed these circuits, identifying ...

A new study has identified a common brain circuit for intensity of political involvement across the political spectrum. Researchers from Mass General Brigham assessed data from 124 male military ...

Creative tasks have been found to map to a brain circuit on the right frontal pole, according to research in the US. And that injury and neurological disease have the potential to unleash creativity.

"It suggests we may be able to improve quality of life by targeting the brain circuit." For acute illnesses such as infections, this inflammation-driven reduction in motivation may be adaptive ...

“We discovered a full brain circuit that senses inflammation in the bloodstream and sends signals that reduce motivation,” said Adam Kepecs, PhD, professor of neuroscience at WashU Medicin ...

Lesions that cause secondary psychosis were most functionally similar to lesions that cause amnesia, though lesions that cause amnesia were more likely to be in the brain’s left hemisphere while ...

UNIGE scientists identified a brain circuit where lies the origin the social difficulties experienced by people with autism spectrum disorders. From birth, human survival depends on the ability to ...

Motion sickness is a very common condition that affects about 1 in 3 people, but the brain circuits involved are largely unknown. In the current study published in Nature Metabolism, researchers at ...

The mapping of pain pathways in a lab dish could also allow experiments and tests to be conducted on nerve circuits without ... from the body’s skin to the brain. They did it by creating what ...

Scientists have recreated the brain circuit responsible for transmitting feelings of pain for the first time. The breakthrough, made by a team at Stanford University in the US, could help with ...