Craig Mazin is a screenwriter and producer whose credits include "Scary Movie 3" and "Scary Movie 4," released Friday. Any screenwriter with even the briefest experience in this business has gotten ...

Last week we discussed the role of central pain. Centrally mediated pain occurs when the brains innate ability to block pain from the conscious mind is compromised. A problem in the brain's ability to ...

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 ...

In order to effectively guide kids through problem situations, it is essential to begin with a basic understanding of how the human brain responds to stress and perceived danger. From an evolutionary ...

The default to emotion is part of the human condition. To better appreciate the role of emotion and what it allows an audience to do, we need to take a brief detour into evolutionary biology. The ...

Neuroscience reveals our brain as three distinct systems: reptilian, limbic, and neocortex, each influencing decisions. The reptilian brain governs instincts, the limbic system manages emotions, and ...

Studies of heart-rate variability – small changes between heartbeats controlled by the vagus nerve – show that swearing may ...

Orexins are lateral hypothalamic neuropeptides that have a highly important role in the regulation of wakefulness. To support feeding behaviour, orexin neurons are excited by food-related cues and/or ...

NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Limbic, a leading clinical mental health AI technology company, today announced that it has raised a funding round of $14 million led by Khosla Ventures and joined ...

Whatever was going through Juan Uribe’s mind in the eighth inning Monday night, he certainly was not fretting about his failure to lay down a bunt. It freed him to swing away, and on a 2-2 pitch from ...