The core reason we experience anxiety is that we are equipped with a built-in alarm system meant to save our lives.

A research team has discovered that a specific group of neurons in the amygdala, a brain region involved in emotion regulation, plays a key role in the emergence of conditions such as anxiety, ...

What many people call anxiety may actually be fear. Understanding how the brain’s alarm system works can completely change ...

Treating anxiety, depression and other disorders may depend on the amygdala, a part of the brain that controls strong emotional reactions, especially fear. But a deep understanding of this structure ...

We've all been overexposed to fear lately. Daily reports of affordability, political fragmentation, and conflict in the ...

Researchers identify a brain pathway in humans that enables rapid, unconscious fear responses to scary sounds, similar to ...

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 ...

If your mind never seems to shut off, it’s easy to assume you have anxiety—but that may not be the full story. This is ...

I’ve been working in mental health for 30 years and I’ve never seen anxiety levels as high as I see them now. It’s very ...

Confocal microscopy image showing basolateral amygdala cells infected by a virus engineered to introduce the CRE recombinase protein (in red) and the fluorescent protein GFP (in green), allowing ...