A research team has discovered that a specific group of neurons in the amygdala, a brain region involved in emotion regulation, plays a key role in the emergence of conditions such as anxiety, ...

After spending a semester in Copenhagen conducting research on health anxiety, CC senior Chris Gruschow ’26 earned the Award ...

Your amygdala are two almond-shaped groups of nuclei located deep within the front part of your brain's temporal lobes. Traditionally, the amygdala has been associated with a broad range of negative ...

A neuroimaging study published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging has identified hyperactivity in the superior occipital ...

The social part of the brain is in constant contact with the emotional center of the brain, according to scientists at Northwestern University. The new findings confirm what many have long thought: ...

Cytokines are well-known players in the immune response, helping to control inflammation and coordinate the responses of other immune cells. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that some ...

Patients suffering from depression, anxiety and trauma-related disorders experienced significant relief from their symptoms after a new treatment that uses sound waves to modulate deep brain activity, ...

Scientists find the protein IL-17 that fights infection also acts on the brain, inducing anxiety or sociability. This adds to evidence that immune molecules can influence behavior during illness.

Confocal microscopy image showing basolateral amygdala cells infected by a virus engineered to introduce the CRE recombinase protein (in red) and the fluorescent protein GFP (in green), allowing ...