Public speaking is becoming one of the defining career skills of the AI era. You can learn to reduce the fear of public ...

UC Davis researchers have found how an adolescent's brain responds to a face might predict how well they socialize in the future.

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 ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have created a unique, cell-by-cell atlas of the amygdala, a small structure deep ...

In contrast to evidence that the amygdala stimulates stress responses in adults, researchers at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University have found that the amygdala has an inhibitory ...

Researchers have found that typically-developing children gain more neurons in a region of the brain that governs social and emotional behavior, the amygdala, as they become adults. This phenomenon ...

Researchers are pioneering an innovative brain study that sheds light on how the amygdala portion of the brain functions and could contribute to a better understanding of post-traumatic stress ...

Over a year ago, I wrote a post about how trauma is "not just in your head". Here, I follow it up with corroborating evidence. I’ve dedicated most of my life to treating trauma using ...