A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are ...

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Functional connectivity between the putamen and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) correlated positively with BMI, whereas that of amygdala with pallidum and lingual gyrus was nonlinearly ...

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 ...

Many of these functions are associated with neural structures in the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala, yet there is little ...

In a first of its kind study, Tufts University School of Medicine researchers demonstrate that interfering with the neural circuits responsible for emotional decisions can increase or decrease ...

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.

PREFRONTAL CORTEX: In some studies, people who are lonely have been found to have reduced brain volumes in the prefrontal cortex, a region important in decision making and social behavior, although ...