One of my questioners on Quora asked: “How does the passing around of electrical and chemical signals between neurons in our brains result in feelings and experiences?” In other words, why do humans ...

If the brainstem is survival and the cortex is sophistication, then the limbic system is poetry.

Every time I talk about how sleep is important for child and adolescent development, any audience can relate to how they feel and function when their sleep is of insufficient duration and quality. A ...

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers explore how live and recorded music stimulates the brain, with live music found to induce stronger and ...

Psychotherapy leads to measurable changes in brain structure. Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the University of Münster have demonstrated this for the first time in ...

Some people experience emotions directly. Others immediately step back and analyse them. Instead of feeling sadness, anger, or excitement in the moment, they ask why they feel that way, what caused it ...