New research reveals how smell and hearing interact in the brain to drive social behavior, using mouse maternal instincts as ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Given that increased connectivity between the mPFC and amygdala during rest is often considered an indicator of emotion overmodulation (or heightened emotional control), the absence of such an ...