Hearing the sound of their mother's voice promotes development of language pathways in a premature baby's brain, according to a new Stanford Medicine-led study. During the study, which is publishing ...

Preclinical studies on animals have identified brain pathways that drive quick, protective fear responses to "scary" sounds.

Infants born deaf or hard of hearing show adverse changes in how their brains organize and specialize, but exposure to sound and language may help them develop more normally, according to new research ...

Note to reporters: An embargoed video explaining the research is available for preview at https://youtu.be/E5hDhWSmeoY. The mother featured in the video is available ...

Every year, about 11 percent of Americans experience the heart-pounding, nauseating sensations of intense fear that characterize a panic attack. 1 While some treatments for panic disorder exist, ...

To understand whether communication between the brain's language and sensory association systems is necessary for representing information about objects, the authors tested whether stroke-induced ...