Emerging evidence indicates that the gut microbiota play a crucial role in the bidirectional
communication between the gut and the brain suggesting that the gut microbes may shape …

Subdivisions of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) evolved at different times. Agranular parts of the
PFC emerged in early mammals, and rodents, primates, and other modern mammals share …

Task-based language teaching is an approach which differs from traditional approaches by
emphasising the importance of engaging learners' natural abilities for acquiring language …

The brain is constituted of multiple networks of functionally correlated brain areas, out of
which the default-mode network (DMN) is the largest. Most existing research into the DMN …

For more than one century, brain processing was mainly thought in a localizationist
framework, in which one given function was underpinned by a discrete, isolated cortical …

Emotions are often assumed to manifest in subcortical limbic and brainstem structures.
While these areas are clearly important for representing affect (eg, valence and arousal), we …

Natural hazards are diverse and uneven in time and space, therefore, understanding its
complexity is key to save human lives and conserve natural ecosystems. Reducing the …

Emotions are valenced mental responses and associated physiological reactions that occur
spontaneously and automatically in response to internal or external stimuli, and can …

In neuroscience, there is a growing consensus that higher cognitive functions may be
supported by distributed networks involving different cerebral regions, rather than by single …

This review brings together current knowledge from tract tracing studies to update and
reconsider those limbic connections initially highlighted by Papez for their presumed role in …