And through pathways of nerve connection to other areas of the brain, the response weakens activity of the brain’s decision-making center in the prefrontal cortex. Overcoming addiction usually ...

It's as if the prefrontal cortex – the part of the brain credited for our ability ... for what we might call 'instinct' (the basolateral amygdala, or BA, being the locus of fear and pain memory ...

And in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), research suggests that areas of the brain that inhibit the activity of the amygdala (such as the ventral medial prefrontal cortex) are themselves less ...

A large brain imaging study suggests that insomnia, depression, and anxiety—often co-occurring—share overlapping brain abnormalities.

There is tremendous interest in the question of how salient, emotional and socially-charged visual stimuli are processed by the brain ... cortex and that culminates in the amygdala by way of ...

A major reason is that the human body seems wired to resist weight loss, with powerful systems in the brain ... dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, amygdala, hippocampus ...

Until recently, the prevailing belief was that brain development ... of the amygdala in processing emotionally charged information, in the absence of a fully developed prefrontal cortex, is ...

GNWT, championed by French cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, argues that consciousness emerges when information ...

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...