A neuroimaging study of over 200 individuals with autism found no evidence of atypical functional connectivity in the amygdala, a brain region critical for processing emotions, particularly fear, and ...

Scientists have pinpointed a brain circuit that, when activated, reduces anxiety without impairing memory. Using ...

Cornell researchers have identified a specific brain circuit that could lead to anxiety treatments without cognitive side ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists at the University of California, Davis, have identified distinct groups of cells within the amygdala, a brain region central to emotional processing.

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A number of neural structures play a role in anxiety, but the one that gives it its strong emotional color is the amygdala. The rational, thinking prefrontal cortex is responsible for interpreting ...

Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have identified a brain circuit linked to anxiety that may provide a new drug target, ...

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have identified in a preclinical model a specific brain circuit whose inhibition appears ...

reshaping itself to make us even more lonely Sustained loneliness can cause hypervigilance to potential threats (amygdala on high alert), paranoia, decline in memory (hippocampus and more ...