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After “freezing” in fear, what part of the brain helps make fish swim again?

Baltimore, MD — The brain is the body’s mission control center, sending messages to the other organs about how to respond to various external and internal stimuli. Located in the forebrain, the habenular region is one such message-conducting system. Two new papers from Carnegie scientists explain how the habenulae develop and their unsuspected role in recovering from fear. (more…)

Neural sweet talk: Taste metaphors emotionally engage the brain

By Guest PostSeptember 4, 2014Healthasymmetric habenular region, berlin, brain, brain activity, dangerous infections, elim hong, individuell dosieren, intractable biofilms, larval zebrafish, medikamente, microbial biofilms, personalisierte antibiotikatherapie, princeton university, pseudomonas bacteria, richard bruch, stoffwechselfunktion, vernita gordon

So accustomed are we to metaphors related to taste that when we hear a kind smile described as “sweet,” or a resentful comment as “bitter,” we most likely don’t even think of those words as metaphors. But while it may seem to our ears that “sweet” by any other name means the same thing, new research shows that taste-related words actually engage the emotional centers of the brain more than literal words with the same meaning. (more…)

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After “freezing” in fear, what part of the brain helps make fish swim again?

Neural sweet talk: Taste metaphors emotionally engage the brain