Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behavior? Researchers have studied a very special group of patients and established that the 'basolateral amygdala' (part of the ...

In a nutshell Your brain fine-tunes generosity based on social closeness. A specific brain region, the basolateral amygdala ...

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Is generosity a question of heart or the amygdala? The basolateral amygdala, nestled in the heart of the limbic system, could well play a decisive role in our social behavior.

The researchers from Heinrich Heine University, Germany, looked at a unique set of people in South Africa, suffering from an extremely rare condition—Urbach-Wiethe Disease. A few hundred cases of the ...

Researchers studied individuals with Urbach-Wiethe Disease, identifying the basolateral amygdala as a key brain region regulating generous behavior. This almond-shaped structure helps process emotions ...