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 ...

This is another way of saying you can take control away from your amygdala and hand it back to your frontal cortex. Mindfulness takes practice. It’s easy to wander with your thoughts when you ...

Reduced activity in the prefrontal cortex, which interprets and regulates emotional signals coming from the amygdala, accounts for the difficulties in decision-making and the cognitive fog that ...

Adolescent alcohol exposure reduced basolateral amygdala-driven inhibition of pyramidal neurons projecting from the prefrontal cortex to the periaqueductal gray and increased inhibition of prefrontal ...

"The regions seem separate from each other, but when you map them out together, they all turn out to be part of the same circuit -- the 'amygdala-hippocampus-medial prefrontal cortex' circuit ...