The amygdala, he says, has connections with higher brain regions such as the cerebral cortex, enabling the latter to "attend to a particularly salient stimulus." Unlike intact monkeys, the lesioned ...

A brain structure called the amygdala, and its connections with another region, the prefrontal cortex, shape people’s experiences and social interactions. The discovery of a key molecular ...

he said, and are also using their new circuit-mapping toolkit to investigate other drug classes, including opioids and ...