A study of healthy volunteers in the United Kingdom found that the administration of escitalopram, a common antidepressant, ...

The prelimbic (PrL) cortex is vulnerable to insult from adolescent alcohol exposure and receives input from the basolateral amygdala (BLA) while sending projections to the ventrolateral periaqueductal ...

A new study published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience sheds light on how early exposure to family-related stressors, ...

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 ...

The field of decision-making and behavioral psychology has long been intrigued by the framing effect, which refers to how the ...

It focuses more broadly on the depression circuit in the brain that links the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in memory, and the subcortical regions including the amygdala and hippocampus, which ...

As teens continue to develop, the emotional area of the brain - the amygdala - develops sooner than the part of the brain needed for self control and decision making - the prefrontal cortex.

The emotional amygdala basically overrides your prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain where all the logic happens. So you don't get a chance to think things through; you just react.