Many sexual assault victims also suffer a form of brain damage, reveals new research. Previous studies have shown that around ...

Fixing the balance of a single brain circuit erased anxiety and social deficits in mice, revealing a powerful new target for ...

The amygdala — a pair of small, bilateral regions in the brain's limbic system — helps regulate emotion and detect salient stimuli. Research has shown that BD patients (outside of a manic episode) ...

Anxiety is best managed when the brain becomes less reactive to threats. Benzodiazepines can interfere with the learning ...

Philadelphia, April 17, 2023 – A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, published by Elsevier, identifies a therapeutic tool focused on emotional awareness that ...

Neuroscientists identified a specific neural mechanism in the human brain that tags information with emotional associations for enhanced memory. The team demonstrated that high-frequency brain waves ...

Anxiety is often described as a whole‑brain problem, but a series of mouse experiments suggests that, in some cases, a single ...

My previous post, "Is Pain All In Your Head?" discussed how the same sensation can be interpreted as excitement, pain, or pressure, depending on how you interpret it. How does that work? The amygdala.

"Emotion is a complex and intense (with an abrupt onset and relatively short duration) psychophysiological experience of an animal individual's state of mind related to a locatable object as it reacts ...

One potential underlying cause of symptoms in individuals with depression is an emotion- processing bias which causes them to have a stronger response to negative information more so than positive.