October 15, 2008 — When patients with generalized social phobia (GSP) read negative comments about themselves, areas of their brain involved in self perception become activated, a new study shows.

In The Dew Breaker by Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat,a young immigrant, struggling with her sense of displacement, uses the food and spices of her Haitian childhood as a perceptual ...

Neuroscience is a relatively young discipline. This is especially true in relation to the physical sciences. While we understand a great deal about how, for example, physical properties emerge from ...