Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. For many years, psychological research regarding the depressed brain often ...

The more we know about how depression takes hold in the brain, the better we can prevent and treat it, and new research has identified a brain network that seems to be twice its typical size in most ...

Recent studies have found connections between schizophrenia and abnormalities in the brain's salience network, a crucial system with key centers in the anterior insula and anterior cingulate cortex.

A brain structure called the insula is essential for selecting things out of the environment that are 'salient' for an individual, and dysfunction of this system is linked to brain disorders such as ...

The salience network is functionally twice as large in depression: The first depression biomarker? Individuals with depression have a brain salience network twice as large as non-depressed controls.

One epilepsy patient reported a flushing in his chest and described a feeling of determinedness, like getting ready to drive through a storm. A second reported similar feelings, a response scientists ...

Results from a new clinical trial(link is external) suggest that a group of brain regions known as the “salience network” is activated after a drug is taken ...

With a passion for helping people, Andrew Campisi joined Salience TMS Neuro Solutions almost five years ago. He has had a variety of positions throughout the organization in these five years. His ...