Researchers have identified a specific structural change in the brain that appears to track with the relief of depressive ...

Have you ever wondered why you jump when you’re startled? Maybe you wonder why you have a harder time handling stress and anxiety than your friends and family do. Part of the reason might lie in your ...

There is tremendous interest in the question of how salient, emotional and socially-charged visual stimuli are processed by the brain. This topic is important because it addresses a fundamental ...

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 ...

Commentary: Talking with someone who has a different worldview is the definition of being out of synch. It’s bound to set off ...

Your amygdala are two almond-shaped groups of nuclei located deep within the front part of your brain's temporal lobes. Traditionally, the amygdala has been associated with a broad range of negative ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have created a unique, cell-by-cell atlas of the amygdala, a small structure deep ...

Brain surgery is not usually something that people actively seek out. However, there may be an exception: the idea of the removal of the amygdala seems to hold a fascination for many people. So what’s ...

The amygdala can activate a person’s fight-or-flight response as a reaction to a real or perceived threat of danger. Amygdala hijack describes the perhaps unnecessary triggering of this response and ...