What the study found: EEG recordings showed that individuals with borderline traits had difficulty ignoring angry faces during mentally demanding tasks. Why it matters: Identifying early neural ...

Teen's unique innovation: Daniel Park engineered a computational drug model from tarantula venom to target anxiety and depression, winning a state invention prize. Science behind the idea: Park ...

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The data shows that the drugs triggered activity in the central amygdala that reduced dopamine release into the brain's reward circuitry.

A new study suggests GLP-1 weight-loss drugs may be able to do more than curb appetite. Here's what researchers found.

GLP-1 weight-loss drugs alter brain circuits in the amygdala and dopamine system to reduce the motivation to seek out high-calorie foods.

The fear that grips you at the edge of a balcony is older than language, older than memory. It’s millions of years of ...

In it, they say they reached out to Steam support way, way back in 2023 when they first started making the game, and was told ...

New research shows that the threat response in the brain's amygdala (which processes emotions) is linked to different patterns of drinking by sex. In young males, heightened amygdala reactivity was ...

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 ...