Secure attachment with caregivers helps build a strong prefrontal cortex and emotional resilience. Trauma during this period disrupts these processes, impairing the brain’s ability to regulate ...

Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Center (SWC) at UCL have unveiled the precise brain mechanisms that enable animals to ...

Brain is a marvelous organ ... with problem-solving and regulation of emotions. Trauma reduces activity in the prefrontal cortex, which controls decision-making and logical thinking.

Researchers identified the mechanism mice use to overcome instinctive fear, saying it may help research for people with ...

Brain learns and evolves. Fear is an instinct, but it learns to not be scared of everything over time. Study shows a brain ...

Researchers have identified brain mechanisms that help animals suppress instinctive fear responses when threats prove harmless over time.

Normandie University researchers have identified critical links between the brain's inhibitory ... stress disorder (PTSD). They examined how the hippocampus and prefrontal memory control processes ...

Dissociative identity disorder arises as a response to trauma. Understanding its neurobiology offers valuable insights into treatment and the resilience of the human mind.