In PTSD and generalized anxiety disorder, overgeneralizing aversive memories results ... This change, in turn, was driven by endocannabinoids that were released in the amygdala in response to ...

More than 55 million people are living with some form of dementia right now. Two specific types, frontal lobe dementia and alcohol-induced dementia, share some similarities but have distinct ...

Study author Sarah K. Danböck and her colleagues wanted to examine the effects of ketamine on resting-state functional connectivity between the amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex in individuals ...

Researchers linked this to elevated corticosterone levels and endocannabinoid activity in the amygdala. Blocking these pathways restored memory precision, offering potential therapeutic avenues for ...

The pre-frontal cortex is not fully developed until around age 25 years. Adolescents process information with the amygdala. Therefore, their actions are guided more by the emotional and over-reactive ...

These connections include the amygdala, frontal, insular, parietal, temporal, and cingulate cortices for the medial PUL and the ipsilateral middle temporal lobe, the fundus of the superior temporal ...

Of the many distinctions that have accompanied the career of psychiatrist Dennis Charney, longtime researcher of depression and PTSD ... With the brain’s frontal lobes taken offline by high ...