Mind blanking isn’t daydreaming. It's something more akin to meditation — but not quite the same. On any given day, your ...

Scientists argue that blanking out is its own state of consciousness, distinct from having your mind wander off.

Neurons—the nerve cells responsible for transmitting electrical and chemical signals throughout the body—are organized in tissue, tending to cluster together in groups according to how they function.

A new study suggests that fear and the immune system are connected in previously unknown ways. Researchers found that the immune system can influence stress and fear behaviors by changing how brain ...

Taste, tears, and tipsiness, oh my! These are the fascinating ways your body changes while at cruising altitude on flights.

A new study reveals that chronic stress activates immune cells that travel to the brain, amplify inflammation, and heighten fear responses.

Mass General Brigham researchers found that interactions between immune and brain cells drive fear responses, but treatment ...

When you focus on the message, and not the delivery, you transform your brain’s response—and train yourself how to get the most from negative feedback.

Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behaviour? Together with colleagues from the universities in Lausanne, Utrecht and Cape Town, researchers from Heinrich Heine ...

Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behavior? Researchers have studied a very special group of patients and established that the 'basolateral amygdala' (part of the ...

Discover how the brain regulates generosity depending on emotional closeness, revealing the science behind our social ...