The difference in development between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex can lead to an increased ... Michael Mosley: Five tips for helping your kids sleep well Dr Michael Mosley offers ...

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 ...

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 ...