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

Direct recordings in neurosurgical patients show that category-selective amygdala neurons fire earlier and more strongly for ...

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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 ...

Researchers have mapped several direct routes between the human thalamus and amygdala that may help the brain respond rapidly ...

Do you enjoy the thrill of scary movies, haunted houses, and Halloween decorations that jump out at you? Why do some people ...

Intracranial recordings from patient pairs playing a real-time prisoner's dilemma reveal that mutual cooperation depends on ...

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In 1995, author Daniel Goleman coined the term “amygdala hijack”–an idea that has subsequently appeared in countless blogs, self-help books, and videos. According to this idea, a part of the brain ...

Researchers have long believed that the amygdala, an almond-shaped structure in the brain, is central to the experience and perception of fear. Studies initiated in the 1990s of a patient with a rare ...