DURHAM, N.C. – A simple shift from a high-pressure mindset to a curious one improves people’s memory. New research from Duke found that people who imagined being a thief scouting a virtual art museum ...

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 ...

Heightened Level Of Amygdala Activity May Cause Social Deficits In Autism Date: March 24, 2009 Source: University of Washington Summary: An increased pattern of brain activity in the amygdalas of ...

The team ran many variations on this simple experiment and peeked inside the mice’s brains at each step. In some experiments, the researchers euthanized mice and made their brains transparent to ...

Neuronal oscillations in the amygdala, hippocampus, and perirhinal cortex during this next-day memory test indicated that a neural correlate of thememory enhancement was increased theta and gamma ...