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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Hidden deep inside our brain is a small structure that regulates our response to danger. Despite its size, it has a major ...

The field of decision-making and behavioral psychology has long been intrigued by the framing effect, which refers to how the ...