The limbic system helps regulate emotional and social processing, as well as learning, motivation, and memory. It consists of structures that lie beneath the outer, wrinkly part of the brain and above ...

A novel quantitative PET- and MRI-based imaging approach can objectively identify a recently recognized type of dementia—limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy, or LATE—that is often ...

Your brain isn't a single decision-making machine, but it's a dynamic battleground. Neuroscience reveals that what we often call “the brain” is actually three distinct systems that evolved over ...

Your brain is not one integrated system. Conscious thoughts, the words that go through your head, occur primarily in your cortex, which is the outer six layers of brain cells. It also processes the ...

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers explore how live and recorded music stimulates the brain, with live music found to induce stronger and ...