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

Are there areas of the brain that regulate prosocial, altruistic behavior? Together with colleagues from the universities in ...

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 ...

The people with a damaged basolateral amygdala were found to be selfish when it came to sharing money with those they felt ...

Why we worry, what we worry about, and 5 steps we can take to break free of unhealthy cycles of negative forecasting.

Cytokines play a crucial role in connecting the immune system with the brain, affecting mood and behavior through ...

Physicians have long observed a mystifying phenomenon: After a bout of infection or an autoimmune disease flare-up, some ...

A study has found that damage to the prefrontal cortex in the brain that helps with self-control and reasoning could ...

Scientists find the protein IL-17 that fights infection also acts on the brain, inducing anxiety or sociability. This adds to evidence that immune molecules can influence behavior during illness.

The work, conducted in mice and funded in part by the National Institutes ... targeting specific neurons in the brain’s fear center, an area called the amygdala, involved in processing emotions ...