Differences in brain shape between a present-day human (left, in blue) and a Neanderthal from La Chapelle-aux-Saints (right, in red). Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology/Simon ...

Recent studies highlight the brain's default mode network (DMN) as a key player in overthinking, or rumination, which traps ...

A newly published neuroimaging study in Depression and Anxiety is shedding light on a growing mental health crisis: negativity is not just a mindset—it is a measurable brain pattern linked to ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...