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·February 8, 2022·4 min read

Alcohol Use Linked to Lower Connectivity in Brain Areas That Process Emotions

Heavy drinkers and those at risk of alcohol use disorder show reduced communication between brain areas associated with social and emotional processing.

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·November 2, 2021·4 min read

New Tool Assesses How Well People Read Kids’ Emotions

Researchers have developed a new tool, dubbed PerCEIVED Task, which assesses how accurately people can recognize specific emotions in elementary school-aged children.

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·October 11, 2021·5 min read

Sleep Loss Does Not Impact Ability to Assess Emotional Information

Sleep loss does not numb a person's response to emotional situations, but it can result in difficulties in regulating emotional response.

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·October 8, 2021·3 min read

Autistic Children Struggle With Hidden Emotions

Autistic children often misjudge the feelings of others because they do not use contextual cues to identify underlying emotions.

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·August 9, 2021·3 min read

Brain Structure in Premature Babies Linked to Emotional Processing in Preschool

Brain connectivity at birth may impact emotional processing and social development later in childhood, especially in children born preterm. Researchers found children born preterm with a weaker uncinate fasciculus, the white-matter tract that connects brain regions associated with emotional processing, were more likely to interpret situations in a negative light.

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·June 9, 2021·5 min read

Gender Differentiates How Facial Expressions Are Processed in the Brains of Alcoholics

A new study reveals sex differences in the way those with alcohol use disorder process facial emotions. Men with AUD showed greater activation in frontal brain areas when processing facial emotions. The increased activation was not seen in women with AUD.

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·March 5, 2021·4 min read

How Does Your Brain Process Emotions? Answer Could Help Address Loneliness Epidemic

Specific brain regions respond in opposing ways when exposed to emotional stimuli associated with loneliness and wisdom.

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·November 29, 2020·5 min read

Laughing Is Good for Your Mind and Your Body, Here’s What the Research Shows

Researchers investigate how laughter improves both mental and physical well-being.

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·September 28, 2020·3 min read

How the Brain Balances Emotion and Reason

Area 32, a region of the anterior cingulate, balances activity from cognitive and emotional areas of the primate brain.

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·August 3, 2020·8 min read

Brain Scans of 9- to 11-Year-Olds Offer Clues About Aggressive and Antisocial Behavior

Compared to typically developing children, those with disruptive behavioral disorders, characterized by antisocial behaviors and aggression, had less gray matter in the amygdala and hippocampus.

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·June 20, 2020·4 min read

The relationship between looking and listening and human emotions

A new study reveals the relationship between attentional state and emotions from pupillary reactions. Visual perception elicits emotions in all attentional state, while auditory perception elicits emotions only when attention is paid to sounds.