‘Island of the brain’ explains how physical states affect anxiety
Thursday, August 2, 2018 - 10:20
in Biology & Nature
A fold of tissue hidden deep inside the human brain which collects inputs from both inside and outside the body could explain how our physical states influence our emotions and may be the key to understanding anxiety disorders, according to Dr Nadine Gogolla, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Munich, Germany. […]