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·March 3, 2026·8 min read

Chronic Back Pain Makes the World Sound Harsher

New research shows that chronic back pain rewires the brain to amplify sound, but specialized therapy can reset the brain's "volume knob."

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·July 15, 2025·3 min read

Hippocampus and Insula Team Up to Encode Emotional Memories

A new study explored how the hippocampus and insula interact during the encoding of emotional memories in humans. Sixteen participants with implanted electrodes viewed emotionally valenced words and attempted to recall them while neural activity was recorded.

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·January 12, 2023·4 min read

Common Brain Network for Psychiatric Illness Discovered

Investigating four pre-existing, publically available psychological and neurological data sets, researchers identify a network of brain areas that underlie psychiatric disorders including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.

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·November 11, 2022·7 min read

How Do We Experience the Pain of Other People?

The ability to empathize, or share the pain of others is mapped onto neurons in the insula, a new study reports.

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·October 25, 2022·4 min read

Here’s How the Brain Works When We Choose to Help Someone in Danger

The same brain system that helps us to avoid danger is also activated during selfless, helping behaviors, allowing us to help others in danger.

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·August 29, 2022·3 min read

Seven New Areas in the Insular Cortex Identified

Researchers at the Human Brain Project have identified and mapped 7 new areas of the insular cortex.

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·June 9, 2022·3 min read

Brain Changes Linked to Emotion Discovered in Mysterious ‘Broken Heart Syndrome’

Takotsubo syndrome, a sudden form of acute heart failure often brought on by emotional or physical stress, is associated with changes in brain regions associated with emotion and emotional processing.

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·December 12, 2021·3 min read

Schizophrenia: Altered Brain Structural Connectivity and Association With Neurological Soft Signs

A new study found altered cortical and subcortical networks in those with schizophrenia and their unaffected first-degree relatives. Findings suggest brain regions associated with a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia are partly separated from brain regions implicating neural abnormalities.

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·November 18, 2021·5 min read

The Brain Uses Bodily Signals to Regulate Fear

Study reveals how the brain relies on feedback from the body to regulate fear response. When a mouse's body freezes in response to fear, its heart rate slows, and this leads to attenuated insular cortex activity.

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·November 12, 2021·4 min read

Anxiety Cues Found in the Brain Despite Safe Environment

Virtual reality is helping researchers uncover some of the secrets of anxiety. Using VR, study participants were able to distinguish between safe and dangerous environments in a game. However, brain scans of those with anxiety showed increased activity in the insula and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex while in a safe zone, indicating their brains were associating the safe environment with threat or danger.