What if your brain is the reason some pain feels unbearable? Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered a hidden brain ...

Scientists at the Salk Institute have uncovered how a cluster of thalamic neurons links physical pain to emotional trauma, ...

Pain is more than a physical signal — it also carries emotional weight that shapes our response and memory of discomfort.

Mice taught to link smells with tastes, and later fear, revealed how the amygdala teams up with cortical regions to let the ...

Scientists have been investigating how the brain makes decisions by participating in the storage of associations between ...

Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of ...

For chronic pain patients, though, the brain interprets even neutral sensations as pain and suffering. In effect, pain ...

During early brain development, the brain creates more connections than it needs, only to prune and strengthen the most used ones later in life.