Neuroticism, the tendency to experience negative emotions, strongly affects the brain’s processing when feeling pain and anticipating pain, according to a Gastroenterology report. Researchers at the ...

Scientists have discovered a brain circuit that gives pain its emotional sting, explaining why some hurts linger as suffering. The breakthrough challenges our beliefs about how we process pain and may ...

We've all been there. Moments after leaving a party, your brain is suddenly filled with intrusive thoughts about what others were thinking. "Did they think I talked too much?" "Did my joke offend them ...

Researchers have created an effective therapy for chronic pain that reduces pain intensity by focusing on emotional regulation. A new study led by UNSW Sydney and Neuroscience Research Australia ...

A new study using brain imaging technology has shed light on how anxiety might change the way young people process emotions.

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 ...

Lifelong plasticity is a core principle of neuroscience, yet it operates within real limits shaped by effort, stress and ...

In a new study, researchers were able to predict a person’s response to emotionally charged scenes using brain imaging and computer modeling alone—gauging not only whether the person’s reaction was ...

As emotions rise and fall in everyday life, your brain keeps up, constantly adjusting. These transitions between feelings—like joy, sadness, or fear—aren’t just random reactions. They’re part of a ...