Researchers find that the amygdala is a sophisticated mediator that chooses between action-based and stimulus-based learning ...

A new study shows macaque species with more tolerant social systems have larger brain regions linked to emotions and social signals.

In 1995, author Daniel Goleman coined the term “amygdala hijack”–an idea that has subsequently appeared in countless blogs, self-help books, and videos. According to this idea, a part of the brain ...

Picture a star-shaped cell in the brain, stretching its spindly arms out to cradle the neurons around it. That's an astrocyte, and for a long time, scientists thought its job was caretaking the brain, ...

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala—the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making—is simply the brain's primitive "fear ...

Anxiety, depression, and social withdrawal are some of the most common mental health problems in the world. Millions of ...

New research shows The amygdala helps choose between competing strategies when rewards are uncertain and decisions get confusing.

Macaque’s social tolerance grades, through its underlying cognitive demands, shape subcortical structures volumes.

The brain’s primitive “fear center” may be much more than that, as new research on the amygdala suggests it plays a crucial role in learning, emotion, and decision-making. Researchers from Dartmouth ...