Some emotions do not just influence us. They take over. Discover how these emotions hijack the brain, and what you can do to ...

Features of this brain activity turn out to be shared by humans and mice—and, by extension, every mammal in between. The findings could help unveil some of the driving forces behind numerous ...

X iaowei Gu and Joshua Johansen at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have discovered key circuitry in the rat brain that allows the learning of inferred emotions. The study reveals how ...

A study offers a glimpse of how the brain turns experience into emotion. In mice and humans, puffs of air to the eye caused persistent changes in brain activity, suggesting an emotional response.

"The thing about emotion is it generalizes. It puts the brain into a broader state," says Dr. Karl Deisseroth, a psychiatrist and professor at Stanford University. Deisseroth and a team of ...

How the brain allows us to infer emotions Date: May 14, 2025 Source: RIKEN Summary: Researchers have discovered how inferred emotions are learned. The study shows that the frontal part of the ...

"The thing about emotion is it generalizes. It puts the brain into a broader state," says Dr. Karl Deisseroth, a psychiatrist and professor at Stanford University. Deisseroth and a team of researchers ...