False-colour positron emission tomography (PET) scan highlighting limbic areas in a human brain. A receptor for the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA is visualised here in regions of the brain ...

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 ...

The Executive Brain is a popular account of the importance ... subcortical processing in the basal ganglia, cerebellum and limbic areas. Goldberg points out the important expansion of the frontal ...

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 ...

This video lets you peek inside the human brain, highlighting the neuronal fibers that enable communication across the brain. This communication is vital to all brain functions, including learning, ...

Different areas of the brain develop in various ways ... The hippocampus, a seahorse-shaped structure that is part of the brain's limbic system, is critical to many functions of memory and ...

"Traditionally, it has been challenging to study these deep limbic brain regions in humans ... to help individuals modulate brain activity in areas involved in memory and emotional regulation ...

In addition to the brain scans, participants completed ... The study, “Reduced gray matter volume in limbic and cortical areas is associated with anxiety and depression in alcohol use disorder ...

To do this the brain ‘prunes’ away areas to facilitate new growth - the ... “Because the pre-frontal cortex is very compromised, the limbic system becomes more active.” ...