As the semester reaches its midpoint, burnout often starts to set in. For many college students, this time of year brings a ...

An international group of researchers led by Vanderbilt University has discovered for the first time that there are cannabinoid receptors in the amygdala. The amygdala is one of the primary brain ...

Social anxiety disorder is a mental health condition and notably different from just being shy. Getting diagnosed is critical for proper treatment.

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that posttraumatic stress disorder may be linked to ...

The Synaptic Physiology laboratory, led by Juan Lerma at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of ...

What are the roles of norepinephrine and the locus coeruleus (LC) in promoting anxiety-like behavior through the basolateral amygdala (BLA)? The LC regulates arousal and stress reactions, especially ...

Feeling fear is an evolutionary survival tactic. A small number of people have a rare condition that means they're not scared ...

Confocal microscopy image showing basolateral amygdala cells infected by a virus engineered to introduce the CRE recombinase protein (in red) and the fluorescent protein GFP (in green), allowing ...