Deep within the brains of rodents and primates is an area where emotional responses and surveillance information collide. The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis or BNST is thought to play a role in ...

Emily Ennis, Kennedy Seipel, Lucy Chappell, Kate Brand, Lily Buck, Brianna Minshall & Jennifer Quinn, Ph.D. Fear and anxiety disorders are the most common subtype of neuropsychiatric diseases in the ...

Scientists have mapped out a serotonin-driven anxiety circuit that may explain 'anxiety' side effect of antidepressants. More than 100 million people worldwide take selective serotonin reuptake ...

Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have identified a neural circuit in the amygdala, the brain's seat of emotion processing, that gives rise to anxiety.

Certain regions of the brain show changes during the early stages after quitting drinking that may contribute to increased anxiety and relapse rates in people attempting recovery from alcohol use ...

A brain structure that seems to influence food consumption could one day be targeted to enhance interventions for weight loss or gain. Studies have shown that activating neurons in this structure, ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. A new neural circuit that controls the desire to eat has been identified in the mouse brain. An image representing various ...

Scientists uncovered how the brain’s bed nucleus of the stria terminalis acts as a master switchboard, merging reward and need signals to control eating, a discovery that could guide new treatments ...