Our brain makes decisions based on direct associations between stimuli in our environment, but it often also does so based on ...

Limbic system. Cross section of a human brain. Mammillary body, basal ganglia, pituitary gland, amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus, cingulate gyrus, corpus callosum, hypothalamus. Part of limbic system ...

Amygdala hijack: This odd-sounding name is not a medical diagnosis, but rather, a term for times when the amygdala is overwhelmed by stress and takes over the brain's response to the situation.

Veterans who suffered shrapnel damage connected to their amygdala, the fear center of the brain, were less likely to develop PTSD, researchers reported Sept. 24 in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

The results suggest that PTSD could be treated by using electrical pulses to disrupt brain networks linked to the amygdala, they added. "This is a very real brain disease, and we can localize it ...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) targeting areas of the brain connected to the amygdala may reduce symptoms of PTSD in military veterans. The corresponding study was published in Nature ...