Neuroscientists have shed new light on the brain circuit that is involved in fear learning, memory, responses. They show that fear memory is encoded in a subdivision of the central amygdala. In ...

Drawings of the monkey brain, left, in which each color represents a group of related brain regions. The graph on the right shows how these regions are connected to each other. Each region is ...

I’ve been studying the amygdala for more than 30 years. When I started this work, research on this brain region was a lonely field of inquiry. The hippocampus was all the rage, and I sometimes felt ...

In contrast to evidence that the amygdala stimulates stress responses in adults, researchers at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University have found that the amygdala has an inhibitory ...

Two patients with rare lesions to the brain have provided direct of evidence of how we make decisions -- and what makes us dislike the thought of losing money. Two patients with rare lesions to the ...

Many new studies of our brain and how it works are painting overly simplistic pictures, leading us to believe things are simpler than they are. Brain-imaging studies have been painting an ...