Of the temporal group, 18 had unilateral focal lesions of the amygdala and of the frontal group, 14 patients had unilateral lesions of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex-two regions held to be pivotal ...

Stress permeates daily life, shaping our emotional and physiological responses. While stress responses are vital for survival ...

A team of researchers from the University of Michigan have found that harsh parenting during infancy can impact children ...

Figure 1. Aged cynomolgus monkey. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy involves blood vessels of the meninge (A), frontal cortex (FC), ...

New cell clusters in the amygdala may improve anxiety treatment. Research reveals distinct cell types linked to emotional disorders. FOXP2 cells in the amygdala offer potential for targeted therapies.

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 ...

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 ...

As soon as a presentation was announced, the evolutionary brain detected a threat and the amygdala took over, initiating a ...

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 ...