Fear is an adaptive emotion that helps us cope with threatening situations. Deep within the temporal lobe of the brain is the amygdala, the most studied brain area involved in fear. The amygdala uses ...

* Medial amygdala neurons directly signal the liver to release glucose ...

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A study discovered a circuit in the brain that connects stress with increased glucose and therefore may link stress to type 2 ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience have discovered how loss of a gene strongly associated with autism and macrocephaly (large head size) rewires circuits and alters ...