“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, ...

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

Using fMRI, we discovered that cortical responses are tuned for ... much of the biomarker literature in psychiatric research would not replicate. We used hippocampus and amygdala volume only as ...

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 ...

The uniqueness of human consciousness is demonstrated in research proving the human brain stores memories differently than ...

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 ...