The lack of daylight hours during the winter can throw off our circadian rhythm – this is the pattern our bodies follow in a ...

Researchers have discovered how specific brain circuits process empathy, showing that witnessing others in pain activates the ...

Empathy—the ability to share and understand the emotions of others—is a cornerstone of human social interactions. When we ...

Discovering and promoting emotional health in adolescence and across the lifespan. The mission of the RADD Lab is to gain insight into the brain and behavioral processes that reflect or underlie ...

For roughly 5% of adults, seasonal change comes with more than discomfort or melancholy. Seasonal affective disorder is a form of depression with symptoms like sadness, tearfulness, loss of interest, ...

Affective forecasting, also known as hedonic forecasting, is predicting how you will feel in the future. Researchers had long examined the idea of making predictions about the future, but ...

Major depressive disorder with seasonal patterns, also known as seasonal affective disorder, causes symptoms similar to ...

The study further revealed that ACC population activity during empathic freezing closely resembles the neural representation of affective -- rather than sensory -- aspects of direct pain experiences.