A growing body of research shows that the adult brain is far more adaptable than we once believed. The concept of ...

Every year, heart disease claims the lives of more Americans than any other health condition, according to the Centers for ...

Resilience relies on the brain’s ability to regulate emotion, adapt, and recover. Myelin plasticity helps speed up and stabilize resilient brain responses. Genes like FKBP5 and BDNF affect how people ...

A number of neural structures play a role in anxiety, but the one that gives it its strong emotional color is the amygdala. The rational, thinking prefrontal cortex is responsible for interpreting ...

Veterans who suffered shrapnel damage connected to their amygdala, the fear center of ... trials in a larger group of ...