This post was written by Eugene Rubin, MD, Ph.D. and Charles Zorumski, MD. In a remarkable study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Kymberly Young and colleagues report that depressive ...

This post was written by Eugene Rubin, MD, Ph.D. and Charles Zorumski, MD. In a remarkable study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Kymberly Young and colleagues report that depressive ...

Have you ever wondered why you jump when you’re startled? Maybe you wonder why you have a harder time handling stress and anxiety than your friends and family do. Part of the reason might lie in your ...

(Reuters Health) - Military personnel trained to change their own brain responses with a neurofeedback program may be able to reduce their risk of experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, ...

The amygdala is often referred to as the fear center of the brain, but this description hardly does justice to the amygdala's complexity. Located deep in the brain's left and right temporal lobes, our ...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that posttraumatic stress disorder may be linked to altered communication between specific parts of the amygdala and other brain ...