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 ...

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

Tonegawa explains that the contextual information about these events – where and when they happened—is recorded in the brain’s hippocampus, whereas the emotional component of the memory is stored ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...