Our limbic system, which is a part of the brain used for our behavior and emotions, plays a role in that connection. Just how much of a role? Read on to learn more about how the body and the mind ...

While teens display impressive cognitive abilities in many areas, their brain architecture remains very much under construction. The limbic system—responsible for emotions and reward processing ...

The function of various parts of the limbic system is to regulate impulsivity and response to emotions, such as fear and desire. Visualising neurotransmitters and their receptors gives a unique ...

R esearchers at Mayo Clinic have established new criteria for a memory-loss syndrome in older adults that specifically ...

The brain and spinal cord together form the body’s command structure: the central nervous system. The peripheral nervous system extends body-wide, encompassing nerves that branch out from the ...

Your brain isn’t stagnant ... more than a million new neural connections are formed every second. The limbic system, which controls emotions and reward-seeking, is highly active during these ...

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 ...

"Our study began when we noticed a key gap in our understanding of how neural circuits in the limbic system—the brain's emotion centers—develop," Laura DeNardo, senior author of the paper ...