Tag: emotions

Stress experienced in early life affects the parts of the brain that control emotions. A new study published this week in the journal Scientific Reports looked at the effects of stress on the development of the brain, and particularly on how fast the brain matures during two crucial stages in life, early childhood and adolescence.

A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging reports that people with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) feel more distress when viewing images to provoke OCD-related emotions than their unaffected siblings. Although the unaffected siblings showed lower levels of distress, they had higher levels of brain activity in regions important for attention. The findings suggest