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

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala—the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in ...

The brain’s primitive “fear center” may be much more than that, as new research on the amygdala suggests it plays a crucial role in learning, emotion, and decision-making. Researchers from Dartmouth ...

New research shows The amygdala helps choose between competing strategies when rewards are uncertain and decisions get confusing.

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala—the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and ...

Schema fit enables hard ideas to click, learn assimilation vs accommodation and use pattern testing to understand faster ...

Teachers are increasingly encouraged to become amateur neuroscientists. For the last decade, educational materials have promoted neuroplasticity, the brain’s capacity for adaptation, as the key to ...

Time is finite. Energy is cyclical. And yet most professionals try to “do more” by pushing harder, longer, and faster—until they burn out or underdeliver. But what if the key to high performance ...

WHY WOULD A NEUROLOGIST BECOME A CLASSROOM TEACHER? by Judy Willis, M.D., M.Ed. www.RADTeach.com As a neurologist who became distressed by the epidemic of referrals I was getting to evaluate children ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...