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 ...

A new study in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging reveals that chemotherapy disrupts brain connectivity in breast cancer ... They observed significant alterations in the frontal-limbic ...

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 ... nervous system. In contrast to neural crest-derived stem cells, which have a limited self-renewal capacity, pNSCs closely resemble brain ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system ... stem cells in the embryo and how they are organized to create important structures in the brain ...