In today’s high-pressure workplaces, emotions are omnipresent—from quiet frustration over a missed deadline to visible tension during a difficult meeting. Often, these emotional undercurrents stem not ...

Sleep is integral not only to physical restoration but also to the modulation of emotional states. Distinct sleep stages contribute in complementary ways: slow wave sleep promotes the downscaling of ...

New research from the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has discovered subtle but widespread differences in the brain's ...

When a neuroscientist began studying meditation, she expected to measure temporary mental states—not structural changes in the brain itself. What her team discovered shocked the scientific community.

When a potentially threatening situation is perceived, it triggers a series of neural and hormonal events allowing us to deal with that perceived threat. This complex response involves multiple neural ...