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

Memory is not a recording device. It doesn't play back events like a video camera would. Instead, it's a remarkably active, ...

A new study shows macaque species with more tolerant social systems have larger brain regions linked to emotions and social signals.

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, ...

Illustration of the basolateral amygdala (blue), hippocampus (yellow), and perirhinal cortex (pink) and electrical signals from each region during a recognition test trial. Source: Cory Inman, Emory ...

Fear memory encoding, the process responsible for persistent reactions to trauma-associated cues, is influenced by a sparse but potent population of inhibitory cells called parvalbumin-interneurons ...

Neurodegenerative disease profoundly affects structures and pathways responsible for memory, cognition, and higher-order ...

Fear response to traumatic or threatening situations helps us evade or escape danger. At the same time fear response is learned in the form of association between stimulus or situation and the ...

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