Neuroscience

Where does innate fear come from?

The 20th century has seen an explosion of scientific efforts made to reveal the biological substrates of cognitive functions. Emotions and cognitive processes interact to build up complex behavioural responses and to drive ...

Neuroscience

Aggression causes new nerve cells to be generated in the brain

A group of neurobiologists from Russia and the USA, including Dmitry Smagin, Tatyana Michurina, and Grigori Enikolopov from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), have proven experimentally that aggression has ...

Neuroscience

How our brains view other people

Race-related demonstrations, Title IX disputes, affirmative action court cases, same-sex marriage bans.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Anxious children have bigger 'fear centers' in the brain

The amygdala is a key "fear center" in the brain. Alterations in the development of the amygdala during childhood may have an important influence on the development of anxiety problems, reports a new study in the current ...

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