Researchers have found that lifelong physical activity may moderate the structural brain changes linked to adverse childhood ...

We've all been overexposed to fear lately. Daily reports of affordability, political fragmentation, and conflict in the Middle East all feed into our angst. The emotional pushback on these abnormal ...

Researchers identify a brain pathway in humans that enables rapid, unconscious fear responses to scary sounds, similar to ...

What many people call anxiety may actually be fear. Understanding how the brain’s alarm system works can completely change how we approach anxiety.

"I am often said to have identified the amygdala as the brain's 'fear' center. But the fact is, I have not done this, nor has anyone else." —Joseph LeDoux (2015) 3D illustration of both amygdala.

Rather than a single hyperactive area causing emotional instability, recent research points to network-wide communication. Scientists found that neuroticism involves tight connections between the ...

Fear memory encoding, the process responsible for persistent reactions to trauma-associated cues, is influenced by a sparse but potent population of inhibitory cells called parvalbumin-interneurons ...