Empathy (feeling what we witness others feel) and compassion (motivation to help others triggered by empathy for their ...

Pinpointing brain circuits underlying binge drinking alcohol offers potential targets to develop interventions and reveals insights about neuronal wiring.

Brain and psychology researchers are delving into how slides down the moral slope begin and what keeps them going. Initially ...

Ultra processed foods have long been linked to obesity, heart disease, and dementia but now scientists say they could ...

It started with an innocent mistake. Texas entrepreneur Chris Bentley had founded a company to buy drilling rights for oil ...

Academics examine the reasons why donors give more when the ‘emotional tone’ of language and narrative used in appeals is ...

The medial nucleus accumbens shell (medNAcSh) is increasingly recognized as a key node in the regulation of hedonic feeding, exerting strong control over reward consumption through its projections to ...

That rush of chills you feel when a song hits the right note is more than emotion, is linked a rare neurological response ...

The rise of GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs prescribed for weight loss and type 2 diabetes could be compromising the interpretation of some cancer scans and throwing doctors off course. This is the ...