A recent MIT study in mice reveals dopamine's crucial role in fear extinction. Researchers discovered that dopamine activates specific neurons in the amygdala, linked to reward, which drives the ...

Diving deeper into the role psychedelics have on our bodies, researchers at Mass General Brigham found that during chronic stress, our immune systems send inflammatory cells called monocytes to ...

Psychedelics can reverse neuroimmune interactions that boost fear Date: April 23, 2025 Source: Brigham and Women's Hospital Summary: A new study suggests that fear and the immune system are ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Word spread, and fast — as it does in so many moments of rumor and fear. Early Tuesday morning, dozens of concerned parents and staff members gathered outside of Mundo Verde ...

Mass General Brigham researchers found that interactions between immune and brain cells drive fear responses, but treatment with psychedelics like MDMA and psilocybin may reverse these effects.

You do them for one of three reasons, fear greed and glory. Neal told me those weren’t the words he used. He told me that before, so I got it correct in the book, but I use them now. Fear greed ...

The tension in the room was palpable for the Today in Ohio podcast crew as dozens of Northeast Ohioans gathered at cleveland.com’s town hall Wednesday, united by a singular sentiment: deep ...

Pearl S. Buck perfectly captured the nature of hunger as a primeval motivation for humans when she wrote: “A hungry man can’t see right or wrong. He just sees food.” As such, the late American writer ...

Fear and stress have vital roles by helping animals to respond adaptively to threats. However, these evolved stress responses can lead to clinical problems such as chronic stress, depression and ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Malnutrition rates are rising in Gaza and hunger could have lasting impacts on "an entire generation", the World Health Organisation's representative for the Occupied Palestinian ...

Three Mansfield Correctional Institution inmates ― Jacky Robinson Jr., Michael Vaugh II and Belvin McGee ― ended their hunger strike last week, according to JoEllen Smith, spokeswoman for the ...