A new scientific review published in Neuropharmacology explores how the environment interacts with brain biology in shaping personality disorders. By examining molecular, neurochemical, and metabolic ...

Researchers have discovered distinct roles for two dopamine receptors located on nerve cells within the portion of the brain that controls approach vs. avoidance behavior. Mount Sinai researchers have ...

A new neuroimaging study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research has found that adults who report higher levels of antisocial personality traits show reduced brain responses to threatening ...

When it comes to understanding differing human behaviors about those around us, we often turn to popular indicators like Myers-Briggs Type, the Big 5, or Enneagrams as frameworks. These personality ...

Your brain does all kinds of strange things. Neuroscientist Heather Berlin explains how it works. Your brain does all kinds of strange things — and neuroscientist Heather Berlin wants to explain how ...

Peter Coppola does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

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 of the ...

The human brain is one of the most complex organs in the world, and it consumes a lot of the energy that people take in by eating food (about 20 percent of the daily calorie intake). To make it more ...