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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·October 5, 2023·6 min read

          Mapping the Amygdala Leads to New Hope For Cocaine Addiction

          Researchers crafted a detailed atlas of the amygdala, revealing new insights into emotional responses and potential treatments for cocaine addiction. A cell-by-cell study of the amygdala, a brain structure vital in controlling emotional reactions, has exposed previously unobserved links between addiction behaviors and genes related to energy metabolism, suggesting energy management in neurons could influence addiction-like actions.
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          ·October 3, 2023·5 min read

          Amygdala’s Role in Epilepsy Sudden Death

          The study elucidates how seizures originating in specific amygdala subregions might suppress both breathing and the crucial alarm signal of "air hunger," potentially through novel connections to the brainstem, which regulates responses to blood CO2 alterations. With a sharper focus on these amygdala-brainstem links, researchers forge a vital pathway toward demystifying SUDEP, revealing robust avenues for future exploration, preventive measures, and targeted treatments.
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          ·June 23, 2023·5 min read

          Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Fears: A Journey of Understanding and Acceptance

          As artificial intelligence (AI) evolves, its intersection with neuroscience stirs both anticipation and apprehension. Fears related to AI - loss of control, privacy, and human value - stem from our neural responses to unfamiliar and potentially threatening situations.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·April 17, 2023·4 min read

          Emotion-Focused Therapy for Bipolar Disorder Targets the Amygdala

          Bipolar patients who received emotion-focused therapy showed increased connectivity and activation in the amygdala post-intervention compared to those who received cognitive behavioral therapy.
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          ·April 5, 2023·4 min read

          Danger or Pleasure? How We Learn to Tell the Difference

          Scientists have discovered that somatostatin-expressing neurons in the amygdala help distinguish between good and bad stimuli, responding differently to rewards versus punishments and even different types of rewards. Inhibiting these neurons in mice resulted in an inability to learn to associate sounds with rewards or punishments, providing potential insight into addiction and opportunities for new treatments.
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          ·March 15, 2023·3 min read

          Characterizing Abnormal Neural Networks in Dogs With Anxiety

          Dogs with anxiety have stronger neural connections between the amygdala and other areas of the anxiety network in the brain compared to less anxious dogs.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·March 14, 2023·6 min read

          What Makes Humans Tick? Exploring the Brain’s Sensory Network to Understand Threat Perception

          The sensory cortex is much more involved in threat processing and perception than previously believed.
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          FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology
          ·February 27, 2023·4 min read

          Early-Life Stress Can Disrupt Maturation of Brain’s Reward Circuits, Promoting Disorders

          Researchers have identified a novel stress-sensitive pathway in the reward system of the brain that releases corticotropin-releasing hormone in response to stress. Adverse experiences cause this pathway to become overactive.
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          ·February 20, 2023·4 min read

          Domestic Abuse in Pregnancy Linked to Structural Brain Changes in Babies

          Babies born to mothers who experience domestic violence during pregnancy have altered brain development and changes in brain structure. In females, maternal exposure to IPV was associated with a smaller amygdala, a brain area associated with social and emotional development. In males, the caudate nucleus size was increased. This brain area is associated with multiple functions including memory, learning, reward, and movement. The findings may explain why children of mothers who experience domestic abuse are more likely to suffer from mental health problems later in life.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·February 16, 2023·4 min read

          Is the Brain Wired Differently in People With Addiction?

          Study reveals functional connectivity abnormalities in brain areas associated with reward processing, habit formation, and decision-making in those with substance use disorders and addiction.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·February 8, 2023·6 min read

          Why PTSD Patients Relive Highly Charged Fear Memories in Sleep

          In people with PTSD, during REM sleep norepinephrine and serotonin levels remain high, reducing the brain's ability to inhibit fear-expression neurons through neural rhythms sent between the prefrontal cortex and amygdala. Those with PTSD require higher frequency rhythms to extinguish fear memories. Researchers say unlocking the higher frequencies via therapies could help to restore quality sleep in those with PTSD.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·February 2, 2023·5 min read

          Shining a Light on the Biological Origins of PTSD

          Study reveals heightened activity in the amygdala in response to seeing surprised or neutral facial expressions could be a biomarker for a risk of developing PTSD following trauma.
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