Our brain is wired in a way we can never understand unless an expert decodes for you. Dr. Jaban Moore walks us through every ...

Even a mouse's brain (which is large compared with same-sized non-mammals) contains nearly 100 million neurons; a human brain, almost 90 billion—about 1,000 times as many.

What if your senses hold a missing key in trauma healing? Sensory systems quietly fuel trauma symptoms, and sensory-based ...

Neurotransmitters are the brain's chemical messengers, crucial in shaping our emotions. Dopamine, sometimes dubbed the "feel-good" neurotransmitter, is integral to our reward system.

The study shows that persistent signals in the brain play a role in altering a person or animal's brain state, she says. But that brain state could be consciousness or focus, rather than an emotion.

That’s because the brain is constantly receiving signals from the world, drawing on past experiences and cultural influences to produce emotions, Feldman Barrett said.

"That tells us that the way that the brain creates emotion is how it creates everything else — how it creates thoughts, how it creates perceptions, how it creates actions," Barrett says. "It's not ...

Humans and mice share persistent brain-activity patterns in response to adverse sensory experience, Stanford scientists find, opening a window to our emotions and, perhaps, neuropsychiatric disorders.