A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, identifies a therapeutic tool focused on emotional awareness that increased activation and connectivity of an ...

Training the brain to treat itself is a promising therapy for traumatic stress. The training uses an auditory or visual signal that corresponds to the activity of a particular brain region, called ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . BI-1358894 was tested in five phase 1 clinical trials and found to be safe and well-tolerated. The mechanism of ...

"I am often said to have identified the amygdala as the brain's 'fear' center. But the fact is, I have not done this, nor has anyone else." —Joseph LeDoux (2015) 3D illustration of both amygdala.

An amygdala hijack happens when your amygdala — a part of your brain that regulates emotions — triggers a fight-or-flight response to stress and overrides your frontal lobes’ ability to respond ...

Over a year ago, I wrote a post about how trauma is "not just in your head". Here, I follow it up with corroborating evidence. I’ve dedicated most of my life to treating trauma using ...

One of the characteristics of depression is a tendency to perceive sensory stimuli and everyday situations in an excessively negative way. But the mechanisms underpinning this 'negativity bias,' which ...

We tend to think of our brains as one big organ inside our skulls, but it’s actually comprised of many, small structures that make it possible for us to walk, talk, think, and feel. Of these, one of ...

Philadelphia, April 17, 2023 – A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, published by Elsevier, identifies a therapeutic tool focused on emotional awareness that ...