Dopamine maintains hope and motivation for life. Inflammation-associated compounds disrupt dopamine release, causing apathy.

Two major studies from Harvard and MIT uncover a surprising link between the immune system and the brain, revealing how ...

The world might sometimes be uphill or downhill for individuals with dementia, not due to their condition but because their ...

Why we worry, what we worry about, and 5 steps we can take to break free of unhealthy cycles of negative forecasting.

For patients with breast cancer, the brain functional network shows a shift toward a more randomized pattern after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Children who avoid physical activity aren’t just risking bigger waistlines—they’re stunting their emotional and cognitive ...

We were somehow able to save and protect them from physical dangers, so far, but the moment this danger found its way to ...

Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behaviour? Together with colleagues from the universities in Lausanne, Utrecht and Cape Town, researchers from Heinrich Heine ...

Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behavior? Researchers have studied a very special group of patients and established that the 'basolateral amygdala' (part of the ...