Neuroscientists have new insights into why previous experiences influence future behaviors. Experiments in mice reveal that personal history, especially stressful events, influences how the brain ...

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

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

It found that if scientists manipulated the neurons in a part of the amygdala, the seat of our emotions, they could turn on and off a male mice’s recognition of the sex of an unfamiliar mouse.

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

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

Bringing mice to an enclosure and zapping their feet with tiny electric shocks, then bringing the mice back to the enclosure without zapping their feet, the researchers revealed which neurons are ...

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

Earlier research revealed that the amygdala, an almond-shaped brain structure most commonly linked to fear, was active when rats were hunting and feeding. To see whether this brain region was actually ...

It found that if scientists manipulated the neurons in a part of the amygdala, the seat of our emotions, they could turn on and off a male mice’s recognition of the sex of an unfamiliar mouse.

It connects the basolateral amygdala, a clump of nerves in the midbrain where emotions are processed, to the prefrontal cortex, where the brain makes critical decisions surrounding emotion and ...

An edited version of a figure from the research shows the ventral tegmental area, highlighting dopamine-associated neurons in green and one that connects to the posterior amygdala (magnified in inset) ...