If the brainstem is survival and the cortex is sophistication, then the limbic system is poetry.

Your brain is not one integrated system. Conscious thoughts, the words that go through your head, occur primarily in your cortex, which is the outer six layers of brain cells. It also processes the ...

The limbic system is a collection of specified neural networking structures, which are associated with emotional behaviors and memory. The major brain regions that collectively form the limbic system ...

The limbic system is a group of specific brain structures associated with memory and emotional behaviors. In 1978, French anatomist Paul Broca first coined the term “limbic lobe” to describe the part ...

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.

Around 70% of women who suffer a sexual assault develop PTSD; now scientists have shown that many of these women show a marked reduction in the usual communication between two important brain areas ...