Under these conditions, certain areas of the brain are activated. The medial prefrontal cortex is key for self-awareness and understanding social information. The posterior cingulate cortex is ...

In this experiment, we pit a neuroscientist’s research against the real world to see if he can identify a person’s political ...

Since that switch determines whether or not an animal’s internal model of the world influences its behavior, the scientists suspected it might involve a brain region called the anterior cingulate ...

the left ventral pallidum and the right posterior cingulate cortex. The left ventral pallidum is part of the brain’s reward system, which uses neurotransmitters such as dopamine and oxytocin to ...

Additionally, lower metabolism was observed in the anterior cingulate cortex ... powerful changes in the autonomic nervous system that show how the brain and body are connected.

So are other major components of the limbic system ... and other substances, in brain areas involved in inhibition and emotion control: the orbitofrontal cortex, cingulate gyrus, and dorsolateral ...

"The emotional content of words is shared across multiple transmitter systems, but each system fluctuates ... different brain regions -- the thalamus and the anterior cingulate cortex, respectively.