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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...