Picture a star-shaped cell in the brain, stretching its spindly arms out to cradle the neurons around it. That's an astrocyte, and for a long time, scientists thought its job was caretaking the brain, ...

A new study shows macaque species with more tolerant social systems have larger brain regions linked to emotions and social signals.

The brain can trigger memories without conscious awareness. Unconscious memory, priming, and brain regions like the hippocampus and amygdala influence behaviour and emotions.

A team of researchers has shown that noninvasive electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve through the ear can reverse memory ...

Memory is not a recording device. It doesn't play back events like a video camera would. Instead, it's a remarkably active, ...

Auditory neuroscience explains why the brain cannot hold a voice the way it holds a face -- and what bereaved families ...

New research shows The amygdala helps choose between competing strategies when rewards are uncertain and decisions get confusing.

Researchers suggested that the decrease in fear memory in pregnant individuals may serve an adaptive purpose.

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

A new study reveals that astrocytes, once dismissed as mere support cells, play a central role in fear memory.