Brains react to pressure differently due to biology, personality, and past experiences. Your brain's alarm system and stress hormone release vary, impacting performance. Understanding these individual ...

Contrary to popular belief, suppressing emotions often intensifies them, a phenomenon known as the paradox of emotional suppression. Research shows that attempts to control feelings can lead to ...

Feel freezing during a fever? Scientists identify the brain circuit responsible for chills and why it sends signals to your ...

“Butterflies in the stomach” is that fluttery, nervous feeling you might have before a job interview, giving a speech or at ...

Prepping for a job interview or giving a speech at your best mate’s wedding? Here’s why your tummy’s a-flutter.

Discover safe, effective, and chemical-free methods to freshen surfaces, eliminate odors, and create a healthier living space ...

Evidence-based analysis examines EMDR therapy, trauma, addiction, and the role of the nervous system in long-term recovery ...

When running a fever during infection, we often feel chills, which prompt us to take action to warm ourselves, such as turning on a heater or adding layers of clothing.

It's not anxiety keeping you awake. It's your brain running a biological program that most people completely misunderstand.

Researchers have discovered a specific set of neurons in the amygdala that can trigger anxiety and social deficits when overactive. By restoring the excitability balance in this brain region, they ...

Mice taught to link smells with tastes, and later fear, revealed how the amygdala teams up with cortical regions to let the brain draw powerful indirect connections. Disabling this circuit erased the ...

Confocal microscopy image showing basolateral amygdala cells infected by a virus engineered to introduce the CRE recombinase protein (in red) and the fluorescent protein GFP (in green), allowing ...