Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have mapped the feeling of cool touch to the brain's insula in a mouse model. The findings, published in the June 15 issue of Journal of Comparative ...

To date, however, we have known little about how this affects brain function in humans. These findings represent a breakthrough because, for years, we’ve considered the brain stem to be responsible ..

However, there were striking differences in the participants' brain activity during the risk-taking task. Democrats showed significantly greater activity in the left insula, a region associated ...