Researchers find that the amygdala is a sophisticated mediator that chooses between action-based and stimulus-based learning ...

Here's how the amygdala processes fear and why it plays a key role in phobias. This is how the brain detects threats and triggers emotional fear responses.

A new study shows macaque species with more tolerant social systems have larger brain regions linked to emotions and social signals.

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

Researchers have found that the size of the amygdala—a region of the brain involved in processing emotions—could be linked to ...

Compared with healthy individuals, those with major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder exhibit reduced amygdala-fronto-limbic connectivity.

Picture a star-shaped cell in the brain, stretching its spindly arms out to cradle the neurons around it. That's an astrocyte, and for a long time, scientists thought its job was caretaking the brain, ...

Memory is not a recording device. It doesn't play back events like a video camera would. Instead, it's a remarkably active, ...

The amygdala has long been known to play a role in responding to the emotionality of a stimulus, activating to images containing threatening, novel or highly arousing features 1. Given the ...

I’ve been studying the amygdala for more than 30 years. When I started this work, research on this brain region was a lonely field of inquiry. The hippocampus was all the rage, and I sometimes felt ...