Every time we show facial gestures, it feels effortless, but the brain is quietly coordinating an intricate performance.

Get cut off in traffic and you might feel angry for the rest of the trip. The experience leads to an emotional response. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on a new study of how this process may happen in the ...

Get cut off in rush-hour traffic and you may feel angry for the whole trip, or even snap at a noisy child in the back seat. Get an unexpected smile from that same kid and you may feel like rush hour — ...

A new experiment is testing high-level lucid dreamers for an ability to dream the future, essentially precognition. A small ...

On the other hand, if a brain disorder causes the second wave of brain activity to decay too slowly or to accumulate excessive strength (perhaps due to differences in brain wiring or gene expression, ...

People are often taught to suppress their emotions and get over it. Emotions don’t just disappear. Unexpressed feelings shape ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Music changes how we feel. Not just emotionally, but biologically. You don’t have to be at a concert to notice it.

In many therapeutic conversations about emotion, there is an implicit assumption: that the task is to identify what someone is feeling—and to name it more precisely. From a contemporary neuroscience ...

New research has identified that neuroinflammation driven by microglia (immune cells in the brain) is a primary underlying ...