Researchers identify the anterior insula as the brain region responsible for biasing decisions toward alcohol over social rewards in addiction.

People with alcohol use disorders tend to prioritize alcohol over alternative rewards, and the neural underpinnings of this are unclear. In a study appearing in JNeurosci, researchers led by Nathan ...

Recent studies have found connections between schizophrenia and abnormalities in the brain's salience network, a crucial system with key centers in the anterior insula and anterior cingulate cortex.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Stress during adolescence can cause postpartum behavioral changes in women and other mammals, including depression and changes in social behavior after the birth of a child. This ...

Stress during adolescence can cause postpartum behavioral changes in women and other mammals, including depression and changes in social behavior after the birth of a child. However, the neural ...

Neuroscientists in Italy have discovered that “social pain” activates the same brain regions as physical pain. The researchers also found that witnessing the social pain of another person activated a ...