New research shows that the threat-response in the brain’s amygdala (which processes emotions) is linked to different patterns of drinking by sex. In young males, heightened amygdala reactivity was ...

One in four psychiatric patients in Denmark are readmitted and that carries major personal and societal costs. But can we ...

New research shows that the threat-response in the brain's amygdala (which processes emotions) is linked to different ...

How does the amygdala influence drinking? New research shows sex-specific neural pathways: amygdala reactivity leads to ...

A study links heightened brain responses to negative emotions with increased psychiatric readmission risk, suggesting simple ...

Bottom line: This study discovered a circuit in the brain that connects stress with increased glucose and therefore may link stress to type 2 diabetes. In stressful situations, this circuit from the ...

Reboxetine, a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, induced an amygdala response bias towards fear signals, and this pharmacological effect was probabilistically mapped to the basolateral amygdala. Yet ...

The amygdala is a small, almond-shaped structure in the limbic system of our brain, known for its key function in the cascade of events associated with detecting threat. When the thalamus communicates ...

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 ...