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

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

Our brain makes decisions based on direct associations between stimuli in our environment, but it often also does so based on ...

A new study reveals how the brain can make decisions based not only on direct experiences, but also on indirect associations ...

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

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

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 ...