I’ve been studying the amygdala for more than 30 years. When I started this work, research on this brain region was a lonely field of inquiry. The hippocampus was all the rage, and I sometimes felt ...

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 ...

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 you wake up already dreading the day ahead, here are small, intentional tweaks to your morning routine that can make a ...

For my Ph.D. research, I spent four years investigating changes in sex drive and behaviour after neurosurgery for epilepsy. Some patients reported hypersexuality, or a dramatic increase in sex drive ...