Stress can shape how we form and recall memories, often sharpening our recollection of emotional or threatening events.

These include the amygdala, which normally monitors incoming perceptions and red-flags threats, putting systems on high alert and setting off the stress response; the prefrontal cortex ...

How does stress affect anxiety ... both curbing activation of the amygdala in response to threatening stimuli and fortifying the prefrontal cortex so that it exerts neural control over the ...

Your eyes and ears send info to the amygdala, and it determines if what ... They're preparing to react to whatever threat is causing your stress response. All of this happens in the blink of ...

The hippocampus and amygdala exhibited disrupted patterns in genes related to the stress response, which might increase susceptibility to disorders like depression. Microbial depletion led to ...

“It’s actually biologically impossible to do that. You need a little bit of healthy stress to get up and out of bed in the ...

Scientists have discovered how brain circuits affected by stress can predict resilience in mice. By stimulating certain ...

The study found that 58.9% of participants who made approach-oriented resolutions achieved success, compared to only 47.1% of ...

"Upon imbalance of the MR and GR-mediated actions, the stress response's initiation and management ... disorders through cortisol action in the amygdala. This work is providing crucial insights ...

Surprisingly, administering ketamine did not increase resting-state functional connectivity between the amygdala ... mechanism in response to trauma or overwhelming stress, allowing the mind ...