Experiments in mice reveal that personal history, ... It connects the basolateral amygdala, a clump of nerves in the midbrain where emotions are processed, to the prefrontal cortex, ...

Mice taught to link smells with tastes, and later fear, revealed how the amygdala teams up with cortical regions to let the ...

Scientists have been investigating how the brain makes decisions by participating in the storage of associations between ...

Normally, male mice are slow to warm up, taking 10 to 15 minutes before mounting. ... It found that if scientists manipulated the neurons in a part of the amygdala, ...

A mouse study from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory looks at neural responses in the amygdala to external cues associated with positive and negative outcomes.

Scientists have discovered a brain circuit that gives pain its emotional sting, explaining why some hurts linger as suffering ...

This study, published in iScience, shows that restoring the neuronal excitability balance in a specific area of the amygdala is enough to reverse these behaviors in mice. We already knew the ...

One of the characteristics of depression is a tendency to perceive sensory stimuli and everyday situations in an excessively ...

Back in 2020, MIT researchers figured out that a mouse’s ability to learn and unlearn a fear traces to the neurons in its amygdala, an area of the brain that regulates the experience of emotions, the ...

Mice aren’t men, so it’s not known if this mating mechanism will hold true for humans. But because this circuit lives in an evolutionarily ancient part of the brain, it is likely to be ...

Experiments in mice reveal that personal history, ... It connects the basolateral amygdala, a clump of nerves in the midbrain where emotions are processed, to the prefrontal cortex, ...