“Since the amygdala is a part of the brain that is typically difficult to study with fMRI, because of its small size and because of where it is positioned deep inside the brain, we reasoned that ...

It turns out Republicans and Democrats do, in fact, think differently, according to groundbreaking brain research.

Fear is a more basal response to an immediate threat thought to be controlled by the amygdala, while anxiety, linked to a part of the brain known as the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, or BNST, ...

Another hypothesis posits that autistic individuals have an atypical amygdala structure ... pairs of brain regions using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Functional connectivity ...

Using fMRI, we discovered that cortical responses are tuned for ... much of the biomarker literature in psychiatric research would not replicate. We used hippocampus and amygdala volume only as ...

and salience processing (amygdala) might be hampered with high Disinhibition. Before the fMRI experiment, each participant rated 180 high-caloric food images according to tastiness and healthiness.

While human brains are clearly different from animals, recent fMRI studies (Celeghin et al., 2023) reveal that individuals with eating disorders exhibit hyperactivation in the amygdala ...