Humans are innately capable of recognizing other people they have seen before. This capability ultimately allows them to build meaningful social connections, develop their sense of identity, better ...

Fear is an adaptive emotion that helps us cope with threatening situations. Deep within the temporal lobe of the brain is the amygdala, the most studied brain area involved in fear. The amygdala uses ...

Free-solo climber Alex Honnold is set to livestream a ropeless climb up one of the world’s tallest skyscrapers this weekend, a stunt that has renewed attention on the decade-old brain scans that ...

A new study found that people who are politically conservative have a slightly larger amygdala than progressives. The results suggest that the relationship between brain anatomy and political ideology ...