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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Altruism, such as volunteering and donating, has been shown to improve happiness and well-being, and may be fundamental to being human.

The researchers focused on a region of the brain that acts as a relay station between the hippocampus — the brain’s learning and memory center — and the medial prefrontal cortex, which ...

In addition, cholinergic neurons in these two BF areas gave rise to overlapping innervation in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), yet their axons segregated in the dorsal and ventral regions of the ...