As emotions rise and fall in everyday life, your brain keeps up, constantly adjusting. These transitions between ...

Countless parents across the country recently dropped their kids off at college for the first time. This transition can stir a whirlwind of feelings: the heartache of parting, sadness over a ...

Countless parents across the country recently dropped their kids off at college for the first time. This transition can stir a whirlwind of feelings: the heartache of parting, sadness over a ...

This is Part 3 of a four-part series on: What Actually Are Emotions? “Emotions are not what we think they are. They are not universally expressed and recognized. They are not hardwired brain reactions ...

Imagine waking up on a sunny Saturday morning. Your two kids and the family dogs jump into bed, filling the room with laughter and wagging tails. You feel a surge of happiness, relishing in this warm, ...

Researchers have discovered how inferred emotions are learned. The study shows that the frontal part of the brain coordinates with the amygdala -- a brain region important for simple forms of ...

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. Get ...

Humans and mice share persistent brain-activity patterns in response to adverse sensory experience, scientists find, opening a window to our emotions and, perhaps, neuropsychiatric disorders. We don't ...

Get cut off in rush-hour traffic and you may feel angry for the whole trip, or even snap at a noisy child in the back seat. Get an unexpected smile from that same kid and you may feel like rush hour — ...

The great thinker never let his emotions get the better of him. Instead, he used reason to get the better of his detractors.

Xiaowei 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 the ...