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 ...

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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You’re watching a movie when the hero takes a brutal hit, and suddenly you find yourself wincing, your body tensing as if you were the one being struck. Or maybe you’ve watched someone get a paper cut ...

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 ...

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, ...

Experimental setup for observational fear testing and calcium imaging in observer mice. The observer mouse witnesses the demonstrator mouse receiving electric shocks, enabling the assessment of ...