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Feeling Scared and Anxious During the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Normal. Here’s Why.
The stress and uncertainty of a crisis can kick your fight-or-flight response into overdrive.
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ICYMI: COVID-19 Linked to Rare Brain Disease
And other neuroscience news for the week of March 30, 2020.
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Your Brain on Guilt and Shame
Shame and guilt feel awful, but they do serve a good purpose: to make you be a better human.
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Cute Aggression: Why You Want to Squeeze Adorable Creatures
Scientists are trying to figure out why so many of us want to pinch babies’ chubby cheeks and squeeze adorable puppies.
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Fear and Loathing in the Borderlands of the Brain
The junction between the cortex and the brainstem highlights the center of our emotions.
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Becoming Afraid: How Creepy-Crawlies Turn Creepy
We may be hardwired to look at spiders and snakes differently than other critters, but we aren’t born afraid of them.
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The Parenting Brain
From pregnancy to parenthood, child-rearing shapes the brain.
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The Neurobiology of Family Separation
The prolonged stress a child experiences by being separated from their parents has lasting implications for their mental health and the generations after them.
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The Neuroscience of Learning, Memory, and Emotions
Our capacity to learn and remember and to feel a range of emotions all arise from signaling in distinct regions of the brain.
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The Anatomy of Emotions
It’s hard to describe what an emotion is — let alone how many of them there are or whether everyone experiences the same ones. But we do know this: emotions arise from activity in distinct parts of the brain.
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How Does Parental Separation Affect a Child’s Brain?
Charles A. Nelson answers your questions on how separation is harmful to a child’s developing brain.
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The Brain Prize Presents: Ray Dolan
Ray Dolan, Peter Dayan, Wolfram Schultz have demonstrated how the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine helps us learn.
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