Research highlights how leaders’ brains process competing priorities, blending cognitive control with emotional insight.

Imprinting,” a sonic self-portrait of Anglo-American artist and composer Beatie Wolfe's brain, opens at the Museum of Science ...

But it's not so great for your brain since it pits two of your brain's heavy hitters, your limbic system, and your prefrontal cortex into a literal head-to-head match. Following is a transcript of ...

Being great with goal-setting and problem-solving sets you up nicely for a variety of careers, including project managers, data analysts, and event planners. These jobs all require the ability to ...

He said our brains have two main parts: the limbic system, which controls our instincts and feelings, and the cortex, which handles thinking and planning. The cortex is always trying to make the ...

These too are rooted in our physiology, in our limbic system and prefrontal cortex, and serve to bond us. So it is not surprising that the passing of your first boyfriend evokes strong and ...

The frontal lobe cannot start our laughter off though. That’s up to the limbic system, located beneath the cerebral cortex. The limbic system handles basic emotions such as fear, anger and ...

During his postdoctoral studies at Washington University School of Medicine he applied cell biological methods to elucidate the role of the limbic cortex in behavior and autonomic control, and has ...

Emotions are generated in the limbic system, a phylogenetically ancient part of the ... the other person’s behaviour so we can react appropriately. The insular cortex, part of the cerebral cortex, ...

Our results demonstrate that discriminative thermosensory cortex lies in the dorsal margin of the middle/posterior insula of humans. We first explored changes in regional activity over the entire ...

The hippocampal formation also includes the entorhinal cortex. As part of the limbic system, the hippocampus is involved in memory encoding and storage. The hippocampus is well known to control ...