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 ...

The people with a damaged basolateral amygdala were found to be selfish when it came to sharing money with those they felt ...

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 ...

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The exposed group also had significantly smaller volume compared to the control group for cortical gray matter, deep gray ...

New research reveals that the immune molecule IL-17 can influence behavior by acting directly on specific regions of the brain.

Researchers have uncovered how the amygdala processes the probability and magnitude of rewards and assesses risk. The study, ...

The most frequently reported highly positive dreams were joy, lust, calmness, surprise, and playfulness. Dreams with maximal ...

Researchers have gained a new understanding of how the brain processes reward and risk information. Neuroscientists show how nerve cells in the so-called amygdala not only encode the probability and ...