Many sexual assault victims also suffer a form of brain damage, reveals new research. Previous studies have shown that around ...

The amygdala, the brain structure known as the hub of fear, responds differently to pictures of scary faces, depending on which version of a gene one has inherited, report National Institute of Mental ...

In a 2007 episode of the television show Boston Legal, a character claimed to have figured out that a cop was racist because his amygdala activated – displaying fear, when they showed him pictures of ...

One potential underlying cause of symptoms in individuals with depression is an emotion- processing bias which causes them to have a stronger response to negative information more so than positive.

Putting feelings into words (affect labeling) has long been thought to help manage negative emotional experiences; however, the mechanisms by which affect labeling produces this benefit remain largely ...

Fear is powerful, but so is the feeling it often sparks in others: compassion. The Fear Factor is nominally a book about the first but delves deeply into the latter—the urge to help other people that ...

“The reduction in activity in the amygdala can predict how much people increase dishonesty subsequently,” study coauthor Neil Garrett, a psychologist at University College London, told The Verge.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American If you have seen the 2018 documentary Free ...

The amygdala, the brain structure known as the hub of fear, responds differently to pictures of scary faces, depending on which version of a gene one has inherited, report National Institute of Mental ...