Socio-emotional difficulties often result from very preterm (VPT) birth. The amygdala’s developmental trajectory, including its nuclei, has been recognized as a significant factor in observed ...

This post is the second in a series, “Connecting Biology to Behavior: Inside the ADHD Brain." Read the first post to learn about the role of dopamine in ADHD behaviors. Your child shuts down on a ...

“How to Train Your Amygdala” by Anna Housley Juster introduces potentially complex concepts in kid-friendly ways to help children learn to calm their own threat response in the brain. Anna sat down ...

According to the facial feedback hypothesis, when we see an angry or happy face, we contract or flex the relevant muscles to recreate the expression to assist in identifying and experiencing the ...

Have you ever wondered why you jump when you’re startled? Maybe you wonder why you have a harder time handling stress and anxiety than your friends and family do. Part of the reason might lie in your ...

A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala-the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making-is simply the brain's primitive "fear ...