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Amygdala
Fear creates distraction, and that can be a positive experience.
This opens the door to manipulating networks of specific neurons.
The findings of a recent study may help explain why some people are quicker to forget fearful memories.
For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity.
Patients with amygdala damage rejected the widely accepted answer to the infamous "trolley problem," saying that it "hurts too much."
A deep learning AI running on a supercomputer was able to link patterns of brain connectivity to political ideology.
An experiment in rats suggests that gene editing may be a treatment for anxiety and alcoholism in adults who were exposed to binge-drinking in their adolescence.
Revolutionary techniques for understanding brain functions in animals could soon help us understand how emotions guide our lives.
Helplessness isn't learned — it's an instinctual response that can be overcome.
“At that time, it was just a wild idea, [...] that instead of just a loss of consciousness, anesthetics may do something to the brain that actually turns pain off.”