A cross-section of a mouse brain. The area highlighted red is the midbrain dopamine region that neuroscientists believe controls reward learning. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Microbe-derived indoles modulate anxiety and neuronal excitability in the amygdala of germ-free (GF) male mice. These ...

“The amygdala can store information with either a positive or negative valence, and associate it with a memory,” Tonegawa explains. Last year, Tonegawa and his colleagues reportedexternal link, opens ...

The researchers studied the activity of the amygdala in a mouse model for depression. Like depressed bipolar patients, these mouse models exhibited behavior characterized by anxiety and stress ...

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan have uncovered how perceptual memories linked to positive ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have identified neurons that are essential for mice to engage in social interactions ...

To shed light on the subject, Shea and graduate student Alexander Nowlan traced how smell and hearing interact in mouse brains during ... location called the basal amygdala (BA)," explains Shea.