given that it connects not only with the amygdala but also with a larger array of other brain regions. We therefore suggest that it may be involved in more general functions that impact emotion ...

High intake of ultra-processed foods is linked to adverse metabolic health and microstructural brain changes in regions that ...

Children's National Hospital and partnering academic centers have found that newborns exposed to opioids in utero exhibited ...

A new technique has enabled ultra-powerful MRI scanners to identify tiny differences in patients’ brains that cause treatment-resistant epilepsy, allowing doctors to offer the patients surgery to cure ...

Nov. 12, 2019 — UTSA researchers are pioneering an innovative brain study that sheds light on how the amygdala portion of the brain functions and could contribute to a better understanding of ...

A new MRI technique can help find hard-to-detect brain lesions that are causing epileptic ... In her case, the errant set of neurons -- called a lesion -- was in her amygdala, the part of the brain ...

A U.S. prospective study has found that antenatal opioid exposure, particularly during the second or third trimester, was ...

By analyzing brain scans of over 6,000 children, researchers found that connections between the left amygdala, a part of the brain that processes emotions, and other brain regions were associated ...