High-conflict leaders exploit cognitive biases to dominate. Science-backed strategies reveal how to neutralize their ...

According to Bottemanne and Joly, brain imaging studies have shown that fathers can experience alterations in gray matter across many different brain regions. Gray matter is the cortical tissue that ...

Why do beauty standards feel inescapable? Neuroscience and epigenetics reveal how our brains imprint cultural ideals—shaping ...

Scientists have pinpointed a brain circuit that, when activated, reduces anxiety without impairing memory. Using ...

Cornell researchers have identified a specific brain circuit that could lead to anxiety treatments without cognitive side ...

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have identified a brain circuit linked to anxiety that may provide a new drug target, ...

One of the most appealing aspects of poker is the psychological battles between players. Through well timed bluffs and betting, players can unnerve their opponents and win hands purely based on how ...

While these receptors are found on neurons within many brain circuits, the team showed that activating them in a specific circuit terminating in an emotion-related brain region called the amygdala ...