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

New research shows The amygdala helps choose between competing strategies when rewards are uncertain and decisions get confusing.

In 1995, author Daniel Goleman coined the term “amygdala hijack”–an idea that has subsequently appeared in countless blogs, self-help books, and videos. According to this idea, a part of the brain ...

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’s social tolerance grades, through its underlying cognitive demands, shape subcortical structures volumes.

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala-the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making-is simply the brain's primitive "fear ...