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 ...

Toward the bottom of the brain are more primitive structures, including the cerebellum and brain stem. These also fulfill ... the central nervous system. The peripheral nervous system extends ...

Emotions are generated in the limbic system, a phylogenetically ancient part of the brain. Fear and disgust, but also joy or grief, are very difficult to suppress. And because they are so strong, ...

For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem cells (NSCs) only occur in the brain and spinal cord. A new international ...