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Our limbic system, which is a part of the brain used for our behavior and emotions, plays a role in that connection. Just how much of a role? Read on to learn more about how the body and the mind ...

Patients that psychologists frequently encounter are people who are cutting themselves. Cutting is a form of self-mutilation. Cutting is not the only form of self-mutilation that people do to ...

The limbic system comprises a group of structures in the forebrain that is implicated in emotion, memory and homeostatic processes. While definitions vary, it is often considered to include the ...

It's easy: Procrastinating feels great. But it's not so great for your brain since it pits two of your brain's heavy hitters, your limbic system, and your prefrontal cortex into a literal head-to ...

R esearchers at Mayo Clinic have established new criteria for a memory-loss syndrome in older adults that specifically ...

It doesn’t sound genuine, does it? Image caption, The limbic system of the brain sets in motion the physical reaction of laughter. There is no scientific consensus on what makes us laugh but it ...

"Our study began when we noticed a key gap in our understanding of how neural circuits in the limbic system—the brain's emotion centers—develop," Laura DeNardo, senior author of the paper ...