When a word is "on the tip of the tongue," multiple regions of the brain spring into action, working to locate the missing term.

Tears are usually seen as a sign of sadness or pain, but it's not uncommon for people to cry during life's most joyful moments: weddings, births ...

A new neuroimaging study from China has found that an eight-week course of bright light therapy helped reduce depressive ...

What does forgiveness look like in the brain? As a neuroscientist ... The dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), ventral lateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC), and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex ...

People with chronic sleep disorders showed changes in a region of the brain known as the "anterior cingulate cortex," as well as in the right amygdala and in the hippocampus, one of the brain's ...

Psychiatric neurosurgery, originally known as psychosurgery, involves operating on the brain to alter its function. Nastasic DigitalVision Vectors via . Up until a cou ...

Huang and colleagues examined neural responses in mouse anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) during a discrimination-avoidance ... coronal sections of 50-μm thickness using Leica vibratome. Brain sections ...

Studies show that parts of the brain involved in word retrieval–particularly the anterior cingulate cortex and the insula ... If the word doesn’t come to you right away, take a break and ...