“Since the amygdala is a part of the brain that is typically difficult to study with fMRI, because of its small size and because of where it is positioned deep inside the brain, we reasoned that ...

Fear is a more basal response to an immediate threat thought to be controlled by the amygdala, while anxiety, linked to a part of the brain known as the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, or BNST, ...

The severity of symptoms in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) varies greatly across individuals in the first year after ...

Another hypothesis posits that autistic individuals have an atypical amygdala structure ... pairs of brain regions using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Functional connectivity ...

A pioneering study investigating the brain activity of dogs during scent detection has unveiled crucial insights into their remarkable olfactory capabilities. Researchers at Bar-Ilan University have ...

While human brains are clearly different from animals, recent fMRI studies (Celeghin et al., 2023) reveal that individuals with eating disorders exhibit hyperactivation in the amygdala ...