As we work on overcoming what scares us, a new plasticity becomes available in our brain, and fear strikes out.

Most people fear a dramatic, painful end. Hospice experience reveals a quieter truth that may ease anxiety and change how you think about death.

Obscene language tics, called coprolalia, don’t reveal what people with Tourette’s think and feel. In fact, tics often compel people to say or do precisely what they most wish to avoid.

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala—the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in ...