Researchers corrected the expression of a single overactive gene in the amygdala of mice and reversed anxiety, ...

Researchers at Universidad Miguel Hernandez have identified a specific population of neurons in the central lateral amygdala ...

Anxiety feels real for a reason. Discover how an ancient fear system and a future-focused mind combine to create worry, panic ...

A newly identified group of amygdala neurons appears to play a central role in anxiety and social behavior. Restoring normal ...

In contrast to evidence that the amygdala stimulates stress responses in adults, researchers at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University have found that the amygdala has an inhibitory ...

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 ...

When you’re born, your brain is set up with all the physical abilities it needs to do everything it will ever do during your lifetime. But that’s not quite enough. Your brain needs experiences to ...

Researchers have found that typically-developing children gain more neurons in a region of the brain that governs social and emotional behavior, the amygdala, as they become adults. This phenomenon ...

How the amygdala responds to viewing negative and subsequent neutral stimuli may impact our daily mood, according to new research published in JNeurosci. The amygdala evaluates the environment to find ...

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala-the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making-is simply the brain's primitive "fear ...