A research team has uncovered key insights into how the brain processes others' distress. Using miniature endoscopic calcium imaging, the researchers identified specific neural ensembles in the ...

Empathy responses to others in pain peak in young adulthood according to a new study. Psychologists have discovered that young adults are especially sensitive to social pain, such as situations of ...

You're heart's pounding. Your muscles are tense. Your face feels like it's on fire. In other words, you're angry! We all know what anger feels like in our bodies, but what's really going on in our ...

Before looking at the way empathy has recently been under attack, it helps to understand what it is and what it isn’t. Professor Gad Saad calls empathy a “noble emotion,” but it’s not an emotion. A ...

It happens all at once—your heartbeat becomes a jackhammer, your body closes in on you like a corset. The dizziness, ...

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For the first time, researchers have studied what happens in the brains of people who have migraines when they haven't slept enough. Migraine is characterized by pulsating headaches, photophobia, ...