Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Infants who cried excessively and were more irritable had smaller amygdala volume, as well as more internalizing ...

The amygdala is a part of the brain important for emotional responses, especially fear. It is thought to be important in anxiety disorders. A new UC Davis study reveals new cell types in different ...

Bottom Line: Neural activity in the cortical amygdala determines whether mice engage in aggressive or pro-social behavior Results: By performing a network analysis on whole-brain activity of male mice ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have discovered how loss of a gene strongly associated with autism and macrocephaly (large head size) rewires circuits and alters ...

This post is the second in a series, “Connecting Biology to Behavior: Inside the ADHD Brain." Read the first post to learn about the role of dopamine in ADHD behaviors. Your child shuts down on a ...

Confocal microscopy image showing basolateral amygdala cells infected by a virus engineered to introduce the CRE recombinase protein (in red) and the fluorescent protein GFP (in green), allowing ...

A new study found that people who are politically conservative have a slightly larger amygdala than progressives. The results suggest that the relationship between brain anatomy and political ideology ...

Cytokines are well-known players in the immune response, helping to control inflammation and coordinate the responses of other immune cells. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that some ...