Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. For many years, psychological research regarding the depressed ...

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 ...

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 ...

A rare brain stimulation study suggests that a brain circuit known as the “salience network” contributes to differences in our ability to overcome challenges and cope with stress. One epilepsy patient ...

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.

A brain network involved in motivation and attention is larger in people with depression. The difference is also visible in people before they develop depression symptoms. Depression symptoms may come ...

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 ...