In her new book, “The Ideological Brain,” the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod outlines what makes some people prone to rigid ...

A new study reveals how a single food poisoning experience creates long-lasting aversive memories in the brain.

A study on Vietnam War veterans reveals how damage to the prefrontal cortex and amygdala affects political passions. The ...

Much like food poisoning, traumatic events are often followed by symptoms after a delay, and yet they still form vivid, persistent memories.

Instead of learning through repeated trial and error or experiences, one-shot learning is when a single experience creates a ...

Princeton neuroscientists have pinpointed the exact "memory hub" in the brain responsible for powerful food aversions in mice ...

Scent is how dogs largely experience the world, a lot like the way we humans rely on sight. We know little about how dogs ...

Scientists have uncovered a dedicated brain circuit that distinguishes between direct fear and fear learned by observing others—known as vicarious fear.

Resilience relies on the brain’s ability to regulate emotion, adapt, and recover. Myelin plasticity helps speed up and stabilize resilient brain responses. Genes like FKBP5 and BDNF affect how people ...

X/fulltext) suggests that brain activity in specific regions before experiencing a traumatic event may help predict whether an individual will develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).