As humans, we perceive feelings from our bodies that relate our state of well-being, our
energy and stress levels, our mood and disposition. How do we have these feelings? What …

Neuroimagingstudies with positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) have begun to describe the functional neuroanatomy of emotion …

The ability to cognitively regulate emotional responses to aversive events is important for
mental and physical health. Little is known, however, about neural bases of the cognitive …

Recognition of emotion draws on a distributed set of structures that include the
occipitotemporal neocortex, amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex and right frontoparietal cortices …

Recognizing emotion from facial expressions draws on diverse psychological processes
implemented in a large array of neural structures. Studies using evoked potentials, lesions …

Cooperation based on reciprocal altruism has evolved in only a small number of species, yet
it constitutes the core behavioral principle of human social life. The iterated Prisoner's …

Addictive drugs act on brain reward systems, although the brain evolved to respond not to
drugs but to natural rewards, such as food and sex. Appropriate responses to natural …

For decades, scientists who heard about synesthesia hearing colors, tasting words, seeing
colored pain just shrugged their shoulders or rolled their eyes. Now, as irrefutable evidence …

A highly original theory of how the mind-brain works, based on the author's study of single
neuronal cells. In I of the Vortex, Rodolfo Llinas, a founding father of modern brain science …

Stress precipitates depression and alters its natural history. Major depression and the stress
response share similar phenomena, mediators and circuitries. Thus, many of the features of …