Stress touches nearly every part of life. It shapes how we feel, think, and even how our bodies react. Though our stress ...

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, ...

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 ...

"The findings show that the amygdala is crucial in the way dogs process and react ... Unlike traditional methods such as fMRI or EEG, this approach allows researchers to observe brain responses ...