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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·May 19, 2025·5 min read

          Reading Fiction Boosts Empathy and Fights Loneliness

          While AI companions are marketed as a fix for loneliness, research shows that reading offers far more meaningful benefits. Reading fiction can foster social connection, reduce stress, enhance empathy, and even reshape brain activity linked to social cognition.
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          ·May 16, 2025·6 min read

          Psychedelics May Shift Brain Power to the Right Hemisphere

          A new theory suggests that psychedelics promote empathy, insight, and psychological flexibility by making the brain’s right hemisphere temporarily dominant over the left. Known as HEALS—Hemispheric Annealing and Lateralization Under Psychedelics—this model proposes that psychedelics disrupt the typical hierarchy between hemispheres, releasing the more holistic, emotionally intelligent right side from left-brain control.
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          ·May 8, 2025·5 min read

          People Prefer to Empathize With Groups Over Individuals

          People are more likely to choose to empathize with groups rather than individuals, even though they find empathizing equally difficult in both scenarios. Using a card-based empathy selection task, participants opted to empathize 53% of the time when shown groups, versus just 34% for individuals. Researchers suggest that groups provide more contextual information, making empathizing feel more intuitive or meaningful.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·April 24, 2025·4 min read

          Oxytocin Powers Altruistic Responses via Parallel Brain Circuits

          A new study reveals that mice instinctively display rescue-like behaviors toward anesthetized peers, offering powerful evidence that prosociality may be hardwired in mammals. Researchers identified oxytocin as a key driver, activating two brain pathways to coordinate emotional and motor responses.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·April 12, 2025·5 min read

          How Childhood Abuse Impacts Parental Empathy

          A new study sheds light on how childhood maltreatment can lead to impaired empathy and increased risk of child abuse in adulthood. Researchers found that mothers who experienced abuse as children often struggle with emotional empathy and depressive symptoms, both of which negatively influence parenting.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·April 10, 2025·4 min read

          Motivational Stress Mindset Keeps Empathy

          Viewing stress as a potential motivator can improve productivity and wellbeing without reducing empathy or willingness to support others. Researchers developed a brief online intervention that teaches participants to reframe stress more positively using education and visualization techniques.
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          ·April 1, 2025·5 min read

          Brain Circuit for Vicarious Fear Reveals How We Feel Others’ Pain

          Scientists have uncovered a dedicated brain circuit that distinguishes between direct fear and fear learned by observing others—known as vicarious fear. The study shows that the right side of the brainstem’s locus coeruleus (LC) activates a specific pathway to the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) during vicarious fear, while the left side processes direct fear.
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          ·March 11, 2025·4 min read

          Brain Circuit Discovery Reveals How Empathy Shapes Our Behavior

          Researchers have discovered how specific brain circuits process empathy, showing that witnessing others in pain activates the same neural pathways as experiencing pain directly. Using advanced imaging techniques, the study pinpointed neurons in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) that respond both to personal distress and observed distress in others. The scientists further demonstrated that signals from the ACC to the brain’s periaqueductal gray (PAG) region are crucial for transforming empathy into behavioral responses, like freezing or avoidance.
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          ·December 14, 2024·6 min read

          Reading Strengthens Key Brain Regions for Language and Empathy

          New research reveals that brain structure varies with reading ability, particularly in the left hemisphere. Better readers have distinct traits, including a larger anterior temporal lobe for integrating word meaning and a thicker left Heschl’s gyrus for phonological processing.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·December 12, 2024·4 min read

          Emotional Memory Cells Driving Empathy Discovered

          Researchers have uncovered a brain mechanism in the prefrontal cortex that determines how animals respond to others’ emotions based on their own past experiences. These neurons, producing corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), act as emotional memories, modulating responses to socio-emotional stimuli.
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          ·December 3, 2024·3 min read

          Empathy Loss in Dementia Linked to Brain Activity Changes

          Frontotemporal dementia, affecting about 3% of dementia patients in Sweden, is characterized by a loss of empathy that challenges patients and their families. Using functional MRI, researchers found that patients showed no activation in brain networks associated with empathy when viewing distressing images, unlike healthy individuals.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·December 2, 2024·5 min read

          How Alcohol Increases Pain Tolerance, and Aggression

          Alcohol not only raises pain tolerance but also amplifies aggression, according to a new study. Researchers found that participants who drank alcohol had higher pain thresholds and were more willing to inflict painful shocks on others.
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