A new study published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging sheds light on the brain connections linked to withdrawn and depressive behaviors in children. By analyzing brain scans of over 6,000 ...

Whenever something bad happens to us, brain systems responsible for mediating emotions kick in to prevent it from happening again. When we get stung by a wasp, the association between pain and wasps ...

Autism likely isn’t caused by faulty connections to the amygdala, as theorized Brain scans showed similar variation in connectivity in the brain region between people with and without autism ...

Fear is an adaptive emotion that helps us cope with threatening situations. Deep within the temporal lobe of the brain is the amygdala, the most studied brain area involved in fear. The amygdala uses ...

Researchers have identified a correlation between high levels of stress in the brain and heart disease. Source: Naeblys/Shutterstock Groundbreaking research from Harvard Medical School shows that ...