Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have identified in a preclinical model a specific brain circuit whose inhibition appears to reduce anxiety ...

Nested deeper within the brain are essential structures such as the basal ganglia, the amygdala, and the hippocampus ... movement of the opposite (right) side of the body. Among the tasks for ...

The new findings confirm what many have long thought: The brain's social network, a new neural system evolutionarily speaking, is partly controlled by the amygdala, one of the oldest ancestral ...

These neurons, which are located in the central nucleus of the amygdala, express a receptor called NPBWR1. Additionally, this study reveals that genetic polymorphisms in the human NPBWR1 gene ...

Dopamine pathways in the brain are generally divided into the well ... and projects to the frontal cortex and limbic areas including the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens (NAc).