Researchers have found that the size of the amygdala—a region of the brain involved in processing emotions—could be linked to ...

Researchers find that the amygdala is a sophisticated mediator that chooses between action-based and stimulus-based learning ...

Many studies have highlighted the negative health effects of stress, but a recent study sheds light on how chronic stress changes neuronal structure and function in the brain. Researchers from ...

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 ...

Researchers found that when these cells become too active, they can trigger behaviors linked to anxiety and social isolation.

A study published in Nature Neuroscience examined the role the amygdala plays in diet regulation. Researchers at Cold Spring Research Laboratory found a group of neurons in the amygdala prompt mice to ...

Fear is an adaptive emotion that helps us cope with threatening situations. Deep within the temporal lobe of the brain is the amygdala, the most studied brain area involved in fear. The amygdala uses ...

Neuroimaging measures of emotional brain function after acute trauma may help predict whether a person will develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a new study in Biological ...

Compared with healthy individuals, those with major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder exhibit reduced amygdala-fronto-limbic connectivity.