A study has found that early-life family stressors, like harsh parenting and unsafe neighborhoods, are linked to smaller ...

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 ...

Biologically, stress triggers our amygdala, which is our fear center. The area of the brain that oversees innovation, decision-making, and thought processing is the prefrontal cortex. The two work in ...

Teen brains show lower empathy but higher activation. Cultural factors shape responses. Understanding these differences helps ...

Studies using neuroimaging have shown that mindfulness reduces activity in the amygdala, the brain's fear center, and ...

Model-based fMRI study shows how context-sensitive valuation arises from modality-specific and general reward value coding in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and ventromedial prefrontal cortex ...

There are projections from hypothalamic nuclei to the prefrontal cortex, involved in conditioned taste aversion, as well as reward centers, such as the amygdala and nucleus accumbens. Leptin is ...

This study utilizes an elegant approach to examine valence encoding of the mesolimbic dopamine system. The findings are valuable, demonstrating differential responses of dopamine to the same taste ...

Objective Previous studies have revealed functional changes within the cerebral hemispheres of patients with SLE; however the ...

the amygdala sends messages to your body to prepare for flight, fight, or freeze responses. This means that your digestion ...

Here, the authors identify a cognitive reserve-related activity pattern underlying successful memory encoding. They further derive individual reserve scores that predict the maintenance of ...