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 ...

Fear is an adaptive emotion that helps us cope with threatening situations. Deep within the temporal lobe of the brain is the amygdala, the most studied brain area involved in fear. The amygdala uses ...

If you wake up already dreading the day ahead, here are small, intentional tweaks to your morning routine that can make a ...

For decades, neuroscientists have been trying to uncover the neural processes that allow humans and various other animals to ...