Harbor Laboratory researchers have found that smell and sound signals merge in the mouse brain’s hearing center, influencing ...

Depressed, anxious, and stuck? Your "lizard brain" may be part of the problem. New research shows how the amygdala helps us ...

New research reveals how smell and hearing interact in the brain during maternal behaviors like pup retrieval in mice.

A person not living with TRD is able to balance both processes for efficient emotional processing. The study, which compared sEEG signals in the amygdala and PFC from TRD patients and epilepsy ...

Imagine you're at a dinner party, but you can't smell the food cooking or hear the dinner bell. Sounds like a dream, right?

Experts say the study, in Psychological Science, underlines procrastination is more about managing emotions than time. It found that the amygdala - an almond-shaped structure in the temporal (side ...

The schematic diagram shows a working model in which pain drives negative emotion by affecting parabrachial neurons, while amygdala input to the parabrachial drives positive emotion. Activation of ...

On the first day Modern Machine Shop visited Westminster Tool, employees were talking about the “amygdala hijack.” This term describes the moment when the defensive, primitive, emotional part of our ...

This path goes almost directly to your amygdala. The low road is how Patient X was able to know what emotions he saw by feeling them, even without seeing an actual image. The low road is fast but ...

A number of neural structures play a role in anxiety, but the one that gives it its strong emotional color is the amygdala. The rational, thinking prefrontal cortex is responsible for interpreting ...