While being embarrassed is a universal emotion, it can actually be good for us. Evolutionary psychologists believe ...

Experts now think of anxiety disorders and PTSD as “whole brain” conditions involving the complex interplay of neurons across different brain areas. Find out why.

The scientists found increased activation of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) while the participants engaged in memory-related learning. Also in line with their hypotheses, the hippocampus lit ...

F or most people, staying up all night is a surefire way to spend the following day in a terrible mood. However, for about half of individuals with depression, a sleepless night has the opposite ...

These therapeutic effects are thought to involve modulation of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), a brain region implicated in depression pathology. This study presents preliminary ...

The team worked with 121 participants, with 33 having focal damage to the mPFC, 17 with lesions elsewhere on the brain and 71 participants who had no brain damage but were of the same age.

Researchers have discovered how inferred emotions are learned. The study shows that the frontal part of the brain coordinates with the amygdala -- a brain region important for simple forms of ...

Rodent medial prefrontal cortex is not crucial for an active place avoidance task requiring cognitive control evidenced by hippocampal activity that purposefully alternates between task-relevant and ...

In addition to their role in the default mode network, two of the areas—the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)—are also important processing centers for ...

Irregular activity in the mPFC has consistently shown up in those ... Discharge—using music to express negative emotions—correlated with higher levels of anxiety and neuroticism in all of ...