In this experiment, we pit a neuroscientist’s research against the real world to see if he can identify a person’s political affiliation—Democrat or Republican—just by scanning their brain! We bring ...

Dissociation is the brain’s defense against overwhelming stress, involving altered brain regions, neurotransmitters, and ...

The amygdala also communicates with the hippocampus ... Sleep disturbance is a diagnostic symptom of anxiety disorders. What do brain scans look at in anxiety? Some types of brain imaging ...

But the amygdala also does other things ... cognitive network that had never been detected on lower-resolution brain scans. What's more, they were able to replicate the findings up to two times ...

Mount SInai researchers identified the cortical amygdala – an olfactory cortical structure – as a key brain region in ...

A study published in The British Journal of Psychiatry has revealed new insights into the connection between joint ...

Researchers using intracranial electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings from deep within the brain found that meditation led to ...

Neural activity in the cortical amygdala determines whether mice engage in aggressive or pro-social behavior, according to a ...