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New research from the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School 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 ...

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 — ...

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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 ...

Psychology does not consider frequent dreaming to be unusual. On the contrary, dreaming is widely regarded as a natural and ...

Ozempic was supposed to be a gut story. Then Allison Shapiro looked at the brain scans. An assistant professor at the ...