Mount SInai researchers identified the cortical amygdala – an olfactory cortical structure – as a key brain region in ...
"We now know that the amygdala is not only involved in our emotional response to environmental stimuli, fostering attraction or repulsion, but that it also plays a role in depression," explains ...
In a new study published in Science Advances, researchers at Northwestern Medicine discovered that the brain regions used for ...
New research shows that early life stress disrupts dopamine signaling, altering social motivation and behavior.
A number of neural structures play a role in anxiety, but the one that gives it its strong emotional color is the amygdala. The rational, thinking prefrontal cortex is responsible for interpreting ...
Researchers using intracranial electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings from deep within the brain found that meditation led to ...
Could the key to easing anxiety be hidden in our gut? Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and the National Neuroscience ...
reshaping itself to make us even more lonely Sustained loneliness can cause hypervigilance to potential threats (amygdala on high alert), paranoia, decline in memory (hippocampus and more ...
Neural activity in the cortical amygdala determines whether mice engage in aggressive or pro-social behavior, according to a ...