News tagged with amygdala

results timeline

Study sheds light on brain's fear processing center

Nov 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 1

Breathing carbon dioxide can trigger panic attacks, but the biological reason for this effect has not been understood. A new study by University of Iowa researchers shows that carbon dioxide increases brain acidity, which ...

Protected fear memories

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Sep 11, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the latest issue of Science, researchers from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland, show how a class of proteins surrounding nerve cells allows fear memories to persis ...

Rats move toward the food but do not eat

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Sep 08, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 2

Scientists led a rat to the fatty food, but they couldn't make it eat. Using an animal model of binge eating, University of Missouri researchers discovered that deactivating the basolateral amygdala, a brain ...

Neuroscientists find brain region responsible for our sense of personal space

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Aug 30, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (16) | 8

In a finding that sheds new light on the neural mechanisms involved in social behavior, neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology have pinpointed the brain structure responsible for our sense ...

Imaging study finds evidence of brain abnormalities in toddlers with autism

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

May 04, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Toddlers with autism appear more likely to have an enlarged amygdala, a brain area associated with numerous functions, including the processing of faces and emotion, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Ge ...