The amygdala — a pair of small, bilateral regions in the brain's limbic system — helps regulate emotion and detect salient stimuli. Research has shown that BD patients (outside of a manic episode) ...

My previous post, "Is Pain All In Your Head?" discussed how the same sensation can be interpreted as excitement, pain, or pressure, depending on how you interpret it. How does that work? The amygdala.

We can learn ways to stop our emotions from hijacking politically divisive conversations. An expert explains how to remain ...

Philadelphia, April 17, 2023 – A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, published by Elsevier, identifies a therapeutic tool focused on emotional awareness that ...

Naming emotions out loud or in writing can quickly calm the mind by reducing activity in the brain’s fear centre, the ...

A rare genetic condition, Urbach-Wiethe disease, has left a woman named S.M. unable to feel fear due to damage to her amygdala. This unique case offers profound insights into how the brain processes ...

"Emotion is a complex and intense (with an abrupt onset and relatively short duration) psychophysiological experience of an animal individual's state of mind related to a locatable object as it reacts ...

A new study uncovers a precise brain pathway that rapidly converts emotional stress into sudden wakefulness during NREM sleep.

One potential underlying cause of symptoms in individuals with depression is an emotion- processing bias which causes them to have a stronger response to negative information more so than positive.

Feeling overwhelmed? Science reveals a surprisingly simple solution: naming your emotions. This technique, called affect ...