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In a nutshell Your brain fine-tunes generosity based on social closeness. A specific brain region, the basolateral amygdala (BLA), helps you decide how much to share with others depending on how ...

Why do we keep ruminating over what others might think of us? A recent study reveals a key player behind this mechanism: the amygdala. Situated deep within the brain, the amygdala is known for ...

A new study reveals that the basolateral amygdala (BLA) plays a key role in calibrating prosocial behavior based on emotional ...

Researchers have uncovered how the amygdala processes the probability and magnitude of rewards and assesses risk. The study, ...

Stress and trauma affect the way in which we all think and behave. Our mind often gets stuck in this response and it is difficult to think and behave the way we want to. I work with how the mind ...

A number of neural structures play a role in anxiety, but the one that gives it its strong emotional color is the amygdala. The rational, thinking prefrontal cortex is responsible for interpreting ...

Are there areas of the brain, which regulate prosocial, altruistic behavior? Researchers have studied a very special group of patients and established that the 'basolateral amygdala' (part of the ...

Researchers have gained a new understanding of how the brain processes reward and risk information. Neuroscientists show how nerve cells in the so-called amygdala not only encode the probability and ...

The people with a damaged basolateral amygdala were found to be selfish when it came to sharing money with those they felt ...