Read More: How the Brain Recognizes and Rationalizes Fear Back in 2020, MIT researchers figured out that a mouse's ability to ...

Dangers come but dangers also go, and when they do, the brain has an "all-clear" signal that teaches it to extinguish its ...

When mice encounter an unfamiliar food, neurons in a brain region called the amygdala light up (blue). If the mice start feeling sick after the meal, the same neurons get reinforced to help the mouse ...

A new study reveals that dopamine release along a specific brain circuit helps extinguish fear by activating reward-related ...

Researchers in China have studied a genetic mutation’s impact on the gene for Monoamine Oxidase-A. A distinct mutated ...

Researchers in Japan found that estrogen produced within the brain, called neuroestrogen, suppresses appetite and reduces ...

Interestingly, the mice did not develop the same aversion ... flavor and the resulting aversion were found to be stored in the amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for processing emotions ...

Back in 2020, MIT researchers figured out that a mouse’s ability to learn and unlearn a fear traces to the neurons in its amygdala, an area of the brain that regulates the experience of emotions, the ...

When a mouse learns that a place is "dangerous" (because it gets a little foot shock there), the fear memory is encoded by neurons in the anterior of the basolateral amygdala (aBLA) that express ...