Momentary shifts in mood, even those lasting just a matter of seconds, profoundly alter the brain's response to pleasurable experiences in people with bipolar disorder, finds a new study. Momentary ...

A negative mindset is known to trigger or heighten stress and anxiety — and new research has revealed other trickle-down effects on mental and physical health. Researchers from Amen Clinics, a ...

Human perception is a remarkable mechanism. Meaningless information enters our five senses and is transformed via transduction. Our sensations are disassembled, using bottom-up and top-down processing ...

A long-standing goal of neuroscience is to understand how molecules and cellular structures on a microscale give rise to communication between brain regions at the macroscale. Now, a study ...

Compared with sham training, CBM-M specifically lowered cortisol levels and stress vulnerability, whose magnitudes were correlated with reduced negative memory bias. Brain scans showed it also ...