How to Get Over a Breakup—and Come Out Stronger on the Other Side
Accepting that a relationship is over is a major step towards healing—and ultimately moving on. But often, it’s easier said ...
Why does it hurt when you get a scrape? A neuroscientist explains the science of pain
A network of nerves similar to wires runs all through the human body, from the tips of your fingers and toes, through your ...
Chronic pain and brain functioning: The link we need to know
These changes often manifest in regions associated with pain processing, such as the cingulate cortex, insula, and prefrontal ...
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Additional study shows promise for low-intensity ultrasound as a non-invasive approach to alleviate pain
In a study with 16 healthy volunteers, researchers focused ultrasound energy on the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex to see if it could change how people feel pain. To test whether it changed ...
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Mice Share Each Other’s Pain and Fear
The social transmission of pain, for example, is mediated by a pathway involving the brain’s anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the nucleus accumbens (NAc), while empathy-based fear is dictated by ...
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The Neuroscience Of Focus: Work Less And Get More Done
Your Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) is now hyperactive ... You want your team to experience performance satisfaction versus the pain of perpetual failure since they don’t have the capabilities ...
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What Psilocybin Does to the Brain
Psychedelic compounds produce intense subjective experiences and have shown promise in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and treatment-resistant depression, amongst other ...
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Thermosensory activation of insular cortex
posterior parietal cortex and middle cingulate cortex and on the right (ipsilateral) side in the region of the anterior insula, lentiform nuclei, posterior parietal cortex and orbitofrontal cortex ...