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Brain connections to the amygdala predict withdrawn and depressive behaviors in children
By analyzing brain scans of over 6,000 children, researchers found that connections between the left amygdala, a part of the ...
Psychology Today11 天
Why 'Lizard Brain' Deepens Anxiety and Depression
Depressed, anxious, and stuck? Your "lizard brain" may be part of the problem. New research shows how the amygdala helps us ...
Too Old to Operate8 天
Contralateral Amygdala Hypertrophy in Unilateral mTLE With Hippocampal Sclerosis
The following is a summary of “Brain Hypertrophy in Patients With Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy With Hippocampal Sclerosis ...
BBC1 年
Procrastination: It's pretty much all in the mind
In these individuals, there were also poorer connections between the amygdala and a part of the brain called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (DACC). The DACC uses information from the ...
Nature1 个月
Amygdala articles from across Nature Portfolio
The amygdala is a group of nuclei located within the anterior medial portion of the brain’s temporal lobe. Part of the limbic system, the amygdala is involved in processing of emotions ...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute10 年
New research by HHMI scientists shows that the emotional memory of an experience is malleable.
“The amygdala can store information with either a positive or negative valence ... The experiments indicate that the cells that store the contextual components of a memory form impermanent or ...