Treating anxiety, depression and other disorders may depend on the amygdala, a part of the brain that controls strong emotional reactions, especially fear. But a deep understanding of this structure ...

A beam of sound, tuned to a frequency that passes harmlessly through the skull, can now quiet one of the brain’s most deeply ...

COVID-19 test swabs are not used to replicate a technique performed on slaves in ancient Egypt to make people submissive. The false claim has been shared via social media posts (here, here) that ...

Fear is a natural emotion triggered by a perceived threat. However, it can also be a factor in fear-related mental health conditions. Scientists believe the biological processing of fear occurs in a ...

"I am often said to have identified the amygdala as the brain's 'fear' center. But the fact is, I have not done this, nor has anyone else." —Joseph LeDoux (2015) 3D illustration of both amygdala.

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 ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers investigated whether post-encoding ripples improve emotional memory through amygdala-hippocampal memory restoration or ...

Illustration of the basolateral amygdala (blue), hippocampus (yellow), and perirhinal cortex (pink) and electrical signals from each region during a recognition test trial. Source: Cory Inman, Emory ...

The limbic system helps regulate emotional and social processing, as well as learning, motivation, and memory. It consists of structures that lie beneath the outer, wrinkly part of the brain and above ...