The interplay between learning, motivation and emotion forms a cornerstone of human cognition. Contemporary research illustrates that learning is not merely a cognitive process of knowledge ...

A new study is among the first of its kind to separate activity relating to emotion generation from emotion regulation in the human brain. The findings provide new insights that could help inform ...

How does the brain link memory to motivation? A new study reveals that dorsal and ventral hippocampal pathways converge on the same neurons to drive reward-seeking behavior.

What Ancient Stoics and Modern Neuroscience Teach Us About Emotional Control I made my first formal court appearance as a newly sworn-in lawyer about a quarter of a century ago. I remember standing in ...

Why are emotional social media posts ineffective? A new study shows that viewers find emotional political expressions ...

Depressed individuals who reflexively attempt to dampen their initial emotional responses to reminders of their negative memories have a low tolerance for distressing emotional stimuli in general and ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), and Duke University have proposed a neuroscience framework explaining how different types of ...

Researchers from MIT have identified a brain circuit that may explain why, as people age, they tend to lose motivation to learn new things. Striosomes are cells that are located in the striatum part ...

Countless parents across the country recently dropped their kids off at college for the first time. This transition can stir a whirlwind of feelings: the heartache of parting, sadness over a ...

Neuroscience is a vast field of study containing a range of narrower subfields. Each involves a spotlight on the brain and other parts of the nervous system, connecting them to one or more zones of ...

Aditya Malik, Founder and CEO of Valuematrix.ai. Nasscom Deeptech and CII Mentor associated with many startups in the AI and SaaS space. One might consider engagement and well-being to be the same for ...