A walnut-sized area of the brain known as the amygdala plays a giant role in determining which experiences end up in long-term memory and which are forgotten.

A walnut-sized area of the brain known as the amygdala plays a giant role in determining which experiences end up in ...

When trying to connect research results to society, there is a temptation to quickly decide 'who will use it and how.' However, if you turn observed associations directly into service specifications, ...

A walnut-sized area of the brain known as the amygdala plays a giant role in determining which experiences end up in long-term memory and which are ...

When people with high vibrations feel out of place at work, it is not about 'compatibility' with those around them. In brain ...

Animal studies have described “low road” pathways that rush sensory information from the thalamus to the amygdala. A brain ...

In a groundbreaking development that could redefine therapeutic interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a recent study published in Nature Communications reveals how targeted right ...

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 ...

For decades, the amygdala has been simplistically branded as the brain’s fear center—a rudimentary structure that triggers instinctive responses to threats witnessed in our environments, from spiders ...

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Elizabeth Lucas A UAB assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology has received a $3.5 million grant to study how hormones influence the female brain’s response to ...

Version of Record: This is the final version of the article. The paper by Auer et. makes several contributions: (1) The study developed a novel approach to map the microstructural organization of the ...