A new study published in Human Brain Mapping has found that music which evokes nostalgia activates a unique network of brain ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

This study investigated the neural mechanisms involved in feelings of interpersonal guilt and responsibility evoked by social decisions. In two studies (one during fMRI) ...

The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL.

A new study has identified brain regions crucial for remembering words and how they are affected in people with temporal lobe ...

Over the course of their lives, humans and other animals typically learn to avoid situations and stimuli that are dangerous or are perceived as threatening. Past neuroscience studies have gathered ...

A study of individuals with tobacco use disorder in China reported that a five-day course of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation restructured the neural circuits associated with the disorder.

The right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), pre-supplementary motor area (pre-SMA), and primary motor cortex (M1) play key roles in regulating this inhibition. However, the changes in ...

In contrast, lower connectivity of the dACC with the supplementary motor area, along with heightened connectivity of the aINS with the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex and angular gyrus ...