Recent breakthroughs in neuroscience have identified the amygdala as a key origin of anxiety. Scientists have discovered a ...

Scientists identified a gene in the amygdala that can cause anxiety by over-expressing itself. They treated that gene in mice ...

Anxiety can feel like a storm that starts deep inside the skull. For years, neuroscientists have known that the amygdala — an ...

Researchers have discovered a specific set of neurons in the amygdala that can trigger anxiety and social deficits when ...

Scientists reverse age-related memory decline in rats by targeting a key brain protein, offering hope for treating cognitive ...

New research shows that psilocin, the active metabolite of the psychedelic psilocybin, may reduce alcohol consumption by ...

In 1995, author Daniel Goleman coined the term “amygdala hijack”–an idea that has subsequently appeared in countless blogs, self-help books, and videos. According to this idea, a part of the brain ...

Patient social cognition remained stable over 3 years, but its correlation with structural damage in the brain changed over time. New research shows social cognition in patients with multiple ...

A new study suggests that overgrowth of the amygdala in infants during the first 6 to 12 months of life is tied to a later diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). "The faster the amygdala grew in ...

The amygdala is important for face processing, and direction of eye gaze is one of the most socially salient facial signals. Recording from over 200 neurons in the amygdala of neurosurgical patients, ...