Researchers find that the amygdala is a sophisticated mediator that chooses between action-based and stimulus-based learning ...

Here's how the amygdala processes fear and why it plays a key role in phobias. This is how the brain detects threats and triggers emotional fear responses.

Researchers have found that the size of the amygdala—a region of the brain involved in processing emotions—could be linked to ...

The brain can trigger memories without conscious awareness. Unconscious memory, priming, and brain regions like the hippocampus and amygdala influence behaviour and emotions.

Picture a star-shaped cell in the brain, stretching its spindly arms out to cradle the neurons around it. That's an astrocyte, and for a long time, scientists thought its job was caretaking the brain, ...

Macaque species with higher social tolerance possess larger amygdalae, redefining the brain region as a social hub.

The finding reframes a brain region long tied to aggression as a core component of how primates manage complex social relationships.

I’ve been studying the amygdala for more than 30 years. When I started this work, research on this brain region was a lonely field of inquiry. The hippocampus was all the rage, and I sometimes felt ...

In our brains there is a structure called the amygdala. It is within our medial temporal lobe, shaped something like an almond, and has been widely studied due to the important role it plays in human ...

Forget crowd sizes — a new study confirms that conservatives boast slightly larger amygdalas, the part of the brain that plays a key role in identifying and reacting to potential threats, compared ...