For most young children, the sight and voice of a parent serve as a primary source of comfort and safety. A new study ...

Humans explore unfamiliar options more when deciding how to avoid losses than when seeking gains. The firing rate of neuronal cells in the brain’s amygdala predicts decisions to explore in both ...

I’ve been studying the amygdala for more than 30 years. When I started this work, research on this brain region was a lonely field of inquiry. The hippocampus was all the rage, and I sometimes felt ...

It's not anxiety keeping you awake. It's your brain running a biological program that most people completely misunderstand.