A new study published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity provides evidence that consuming refined diets for as little as three ...

Illustration of the basolateral amygdala (blue), hippocampus (yellow), and perirhinal cortex (pink) and electrical signals from each region during a recognition test trial. Source: Cory Inman, Emory ...

In a memory retrieval task in which 14 participants, 20-54 years of age, viewed a series of nonemotional images, half of which were immediately followed by electrical stimulation of the participants' ...

Limbic system of the brain Modulate electrical stimulation of the amygdala may improve declarative memory without provoking any emotional reaction. Electrical stimulation of the amygdala may boost ...

The findings are the first example of electrical brain stimulation in humans giving an event-specific boost to memory lasting until the next day, the scientists say. Direct electrical stimulation of ...

Fixing the balance of a single brain circuit erased anxiety and social deficits in mice, revealing a powerful new target for ...

Aging is associated with preserved enhancement of emotional memory, as well as with age-related reductions in memory for negative stimuli, but the neural networks underlying such alterations are not ...

Two human experiments published in JNeurosci demonstrate that a widely used yet controversial psychotherapy technique suppresses fear-related amygdala activity during recall of a traumatic memory.

Direct electrical stimulation of the human amygdala, a region of the brain known to regulate memory and emotional behaviors, can enhance next-day recognition of images when applied immediately after ...