One study of mice by German scientists suggested that claustrophobia could be the result of a gene mutation, while Japanese academics found it may be down to having a smaller amygdala, the part of ...

According to Emerson Human Capitol, our brains are hard-wired to resist change, as the amygdala interprets change as a threat and releases the hormones for fear, fight, or flight. As a result ...

This valuable contribution combines high-resolution histology with magnetic resonance imaging in a novel way to study the organisation of the human amygdala. The main findings convincingly show the ...

To test this hypothesis, we investigated the cholinergic innervation of functionally linked amygdala and prefrontal cortical regions. First, using tracing experiments, we determined that cholinergic ...

The predictive brain pattern contained bilateral fractional anisotropy in the anterior cingulate cortex, diffusivity in the left amygdala, and structural prefrontal cortex-amygdala connectivity in ...

Connections from the basolateral amygdala (BLA) to medial prefrontal cortex (PFC) regulate memory and emotion and become disrupted in neuropsychiatric disorders. The diverse roles attributed to ...