A number of neural structures play a role in anxiety, but the one that gives it its strong emotional color is the amygdala. The rational, thinking prefrontal cortex is responsible for interpreting ...

A study has found that early-life family stressors, like harsh parenting and unsafe neighborhoods, are linked to smaller ...

Stress permeates daily life, shaping our emotional and physiological responses. While stress responses are vital for survival ...

The prelimbic (PrL) cortex is vulnerable to insult from adolescent alcohol exposure and receives input from the basolateral amygdala (BLA) while sending projections to the ventrolateral periaqueductal ...

The field of decision-making and behavioral psychology has long been intrigued by the framing effect, which refers to how the ...

Figure 1. Aged cynomolgus monkey. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy involves blood vessels of the meninge (A), frontal cortex (FC), ...