Researchers have identified a specific structural change in the brain that appears to track with the relief of depressive ...

Depression and anxiety may heighten cardiovascular disease risk through chronic stress pathways in the brain and body.

Confocal microscopy image showing basolateral amygdala cells infected by a virus engineered to introduce the CRE recombinase protein (in red) and the fluorescent protein GFP (in green), allowing ...

Forget crowd sizes — a new study confirms that conservatives boast slightly larger amygdalas, the part of the brain that plays a key role in identifying and reacting to potential threats, compared ...

The amygdala and brain's social network communicate more than we thought. By Laura Baisas Published Nov 25, 2024 9:16 AM EST Get the Popular Science daily newsletter ...

A new study published in Molecular Psychiatry shows that computer-assisted cognitive behavioural therapy can cut depression ...

The amygdala is a small, almond-shaped structure in the limbic system of our brain, known for its key function in the cascade of events associated with detecting threat. When the thalamus communicates ...

An international group of researchers led by Vanderbilt University has discovered for the first time that there are cannabinoid receptors in the amygdala. The amygdala is one of the primary brain ...

The brain responds to incoming odours by adjusting sniffing, and those adjustments in turn influence how much of the odour ...