Researchers find that the amygdala is a sophisticated mediator that chooses between action-based and stimulus-based learning ...

New research shows The amygdala helps choose between competing strategies when rewards are uncertain and decisions get confusing.

The brain’s primitive “fear center” may be much more than that, as new research on the amygdala suggests it plays a crucial role in learning, emotion, and decision-making. Researchers from Dartmouth ...

As we work on overcoming what scares us, a new plasticity becomes available in our brain, and fear strikes out.

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala—the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in ...

Picture a star-shaped cell in the brain, stretching its spindly arms out to cradle the neurons around it. That's an astrocyte, and for a long time, scientists thought its job was caretaking the brain, ...

A new study shows that a lack of dietary fiber leads to rapid inflammation in the aging brain's amygdala, impairing emotional memory.

A research team has discovered that a specific group of neurons in the amygdala, a brain region involved in emotion regulation, plays a key role in the emergence of conditions such as anxiety, ...

The social part of the brain is in constant contact with the emotional center of the brain, according to scientists at Northwestern University. The new findings confirm what many have long thought: ...