Nested deeper within the brain are essential structures such as the basal ganglia, the amygdala, and the hippocampus. Toward the bottom of the brain are more primitive structures, including the ...

In the first comprehensive, cell-by-cell analysis of brain tissue from individuals with Tourette syndrome, researchers have ...

People are born with varying levels of emotional intelligence. Emotional Intelligence is the ability of an individual to manage his or her own emotions as well as the emotions of people in his nearest ...

On page 760, a leading group of basal ganglia researchers present a revision ... in primates and propose that the main role of the amygdala and the pulvinar, two key components of the purported ...

The basal ganglia are a set of subcortical structures that interact with the cerebral cortex to regulate motor, cognitive and affective function through reinforcement learning and action selection.