In A Nutshell Researchers used focused sound waves to temporarily quiet the amygdala in healthy adults, reaching a deep brain ...

Fear is an adaptive emotion that helps us cope with threatening situations. Deep within the temporal lobe of the brain is the amygdala, the most studied brain area involved in fear. The amygdala uses ...

In contrast to evidence that the amygdala stimulates stress responses in adults, researchers at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University have found that the amygdala has an inhibitory ...

Neuroimaging measures of emotional brain function after acute trauma may help predict whether a person will develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a new study in Biological ...

High arousal causes the locus coeruleus system to act via alpha-1 and beta adrenergic receptors, favoring elevated fear levels and hindering new learning, while high stress may increase basolateral ...

A rare genetic condition, Urbach-Wiethe disease, has left a woman named S.M. unable to feel fear due to damage to her amygdala. This unique case offers profound insights into how the brain processes ...