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 ...

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 ...

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

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 groundbreaking study conducted by neonatologists has revealed that babies exposed to opioids in the womb tend to have ...

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 ...

Volumes of the hippocampus and amygdala and subcortical grey matter including thalamus ... increasing exposure to recurrent head trauma measured in several different ways was associated with lower MRI ...

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

ANTENATAL opioid exposure is associated with significant reductions in global and regional brain volumes in newborns, with variations depending on opioid type and polysubstance use, according to a ...